Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 104
These people still speak a characteristic Algonkin language which bears more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at St. Francis, near Pierreville, Quebec, than it does to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots, the Passamaquoddies.
Who acts: people, idiom · What happens: speak, do · To what, where: characteristic Algonkin language · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, idiom), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 speak | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 language | det |
| 6 | characteristic | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 language | compound |
| 7 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 language | compound |
| 8 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obj |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 bears | det |
| 10 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 language | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 resemblance | amod |
| 12 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bears | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 idiom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 idiom | det |
| 15 | idiom | idiom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resemblance | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Abenakis | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Abenakis | det |
| 18 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 idiom | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 Francis | case |
| 20 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Francis | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Francis | Francis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Abenakis | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Pierreville | punct |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 Pierreville | case |
| 24 | Pierreville | Pierreville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Francis | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Quebec | punct |
| 26 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Francis | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 does | punct |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 does | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 does | nsubj |
| 30 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 that | case |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 does | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 neighbors | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 neighbors | det |
| 35 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 neighbors | amod |
| 36 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 neighbors | compound |
| 37 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 that | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Penobscots | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Penobscots | det |
| 40 | Penobscots | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 neighbors | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Passamaquoddies | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 43 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Penobscots | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | this people | a characteristic Algonkin language and which bears and more resemblance to the idiom of the Abenakis at Francis St. and Pierreville and Quebec | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | present | idiom | to that of the nearer Algonkin neighbors of the Penobscots and the Passamaquoddies | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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