Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 132
A Penobscot woman once told me that it was _Klûskâbe_--she did not call him _Kulóskap_, as the Passamaquoddies do--who divided the great mountain of which Boston originally consisted into _three hills_.
Who acts: Penobscot woman, idiom, Klûskâbe, Passamaquoddies, Boston · What happens: tell, be, not call, do, divide, consist · To what, where: me, Klûskâbe, J., great mountain, three hills · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Penobscot woman, idiom, Klûskâbe, Passamaquoddies), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | Penobscot | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 woman | compound |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 told | advmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Klûskâbe | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Klûskâbe | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Klûskâbe | cop |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Klûskâbe | punct |
| 11 | Klûskâbe | Klûskâbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | conj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Klûskâbe | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 call | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 call | advmod |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Klûskâbe | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kulóskap | punct |
| 20 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 call | xcomp |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kulóskap | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 25 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 call | advcl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 divided | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 divided | nsubj |
| 29 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 mountain | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 mountain | amod |
| 32 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 divided | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 consisted | obl |
| 35 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 consisted | nsubj |
| 36 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 37 consisted | advmod |
| 37 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 hills | case |
| 39 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 38 into | punct |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 hills | nummod |
| 41 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 consisted | obl |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 consisted | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a Penobscot woman | me | once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | idiom | Klûskâbe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not call | past · do-support | Klûskâbe | J. | Kulóskap xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | do | present | the Passamaquoddies | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | divide | past | the great mountain | who nsubj | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | ||||
| 6 | consist | past | Boston | three hills | of the great mountain; originally property | 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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