Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 10, sentence 95
In Micmac Marten’s name Is Abistanēūch; he Was of the Elfin kind, One who could change his form To what he pleased.
Who acts: Micmac, Abistanēūch · What happens: be, change, name, form · To what, where: Abistanēūch, name, form
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Micmac, Abistanēūch), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 name | case |
| 2 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Marten | Marten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Micmac | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Micmac | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Abistanēūch | obl |
| 6 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Abistanēūch | cop |
| 7 | Abistanēūch | Abistanēūch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kind | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 10 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 kind | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kind | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kind | det |
| 13 | Elfin | Elfin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kind | compound |
| 14 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Abistanēūch | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 One | punct |
| 16 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 kind | appos |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 change | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 change | aux |
| 19 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 One | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 form | nmod:poss |
| 21 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 change | obj |
| 22 | To | to | ADP | _ | 23 what | case |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 change | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pleased | nsubj |
| 25 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Abistanēūch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Abistanēūch | Micmac's name | the Elfin kind Abistanēūch Was appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | could | Abistanēūch's form | who nsubj; what obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | Micmac | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | form | Abistanēūch | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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