Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
I obtained the Wampum Records at Bar Harbor, Me., in 1887, from the Passamaquoddy Indian mentioned above by Mr. Leland, Mr. Louis Mitchell, who was at that time Indian member of the Maine Legislature.
Who acts: I, Louis · What happens: obtain, mention, be · To what, where: Wampum Records, Bar Harbor, time Indian member
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Louis), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 obtained | nsubj |
| 2 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Records | det |
| 4 | Wampum | Wampum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Records | compound |
| 5 | Records | Record | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 obtained | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Harbor | case |
| 7 | Bar | Bar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Harbor | compound |
| 8 | Harbor | Harbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Me | punct |
| 10 | Me | Me | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Harbor | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 1887 | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1887 | case |
| 14 | 1887 | 1887 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 obtained | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Passamaquoddy | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Passamaquoddy | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Passamaquoddy | det |
| 18 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 obtained | parataxis |
| 19 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Passamaquoddy | amod |
| 20 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Indian | advcl |
| 21 | above | above | ADV | _ | 20 mentioned | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 Leland | case |
| 23 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Leland | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Leland | Leland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mentioned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Louis | punct |
| 26 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Louis | nmod:desc |
| 27 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Leland | appos |
| 28 | Mitchell | Mitchell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Louis | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 member | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 member | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 member | cop |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 member | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 member | nsubj |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 member | compound |
| 35 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 member | amod |
| 36 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Louis | appos |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Legislature | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Legislature | det |
| 39 | Maine | Maine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Legislature | compound |
| 40 | Legislature | legislature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 member | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | I | the Wampum Records | Bar Harbor and Me | in 1887; the Passamaquoddy parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme | ||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | I not said here | by Leland Mr.; above property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Louis Mr. | time Indian member | of the Maine Legislature; that nsubj | 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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