Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 9, sentence 39
Like all men of his kind He was very vain and curious.
Who acts: Was · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Was), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 men | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vain | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vain | obl |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 vain | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 vain | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 vain | advmod |
| 10 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 curious | cc |
| 12 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vain | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Was | like all men; of Was's kind; vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Was not said here | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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