Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 18, sentence 23
The first portion of it was chanted to Mrs. W. Wallace Brown by an old Indian woman; the remainder was recovered from the Passamaquoddy Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah.
Who acts: Mrs. W. Wallace · What happens: chant, recover · To what, where: first portion, remainder, Thomas Josephs
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mrs. W. Wallace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 portion | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 portion | amod |
| 3 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chanted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 portion | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chanted | aux:pass |
| 7 | chanted | chant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Wallace | case |
| 9 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wallace | flat |
| 10 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wallace | flat |
| 11 | Wallace | Wallace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chanted | obl:agent |
| 12 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wallace | flat |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chanted | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 recovered | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 remainder | det |
| 20 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 recovered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 recovered | aux:pass |
| 22 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chanted | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Josephs | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Josephs | det |
| 25 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Thomas | compound |
| 26 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Josephs | compound |
| 27 | Josephs | joseph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 recovered | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 Tamaquah | cc |
| 29 | Tamaquah | Tamaquah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Josephs | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chant | past · passive | Mrs. W. Wallace | the first portion of antiquity | by a old Indian woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | recover | past · passive | the remainder | the Thomas Josephs or Tamaquah | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from joseph=Source |
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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