Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 107

Many of the survivors at once fled to French Canada, where they settled themselves in their present village of St. Francis, near Pierreville, Quebec (_Alsigontegok_, “river of empty habitations”).

Who acts: Abenakis · What happens: flee, settle · To what, where: French Canada, Abenakis, present village

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 (Abenakis), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 survivors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 survivors	det
4	survivors	survivor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 fled	mark
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 fled	advmod
7	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Many	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Canada	case
9	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Canada	compound
10	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fled	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 settled	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 settled	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 settled	nsubj
14	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fled	conj
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 settled	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 village	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 village	nmod:poss
18	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 village	amod
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 settled	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 Francis	case
21	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Francis	nmod:desc
22	Francis	Francis	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 village	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Pierreville	punct
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 Pierreville	case
25	Pierreville	Pierreville	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 settled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Quebec	punct
27	Quebec	Quebec	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Pierreville	conj
28	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 Alsigontegok	punct
29	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Alsigontegok	punct
30	Alsigontegok	Alsigontegok	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Pierreville	appos
31	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 Alsigontegok	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 river	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 river	punct
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Alsigontegok	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 habitations	case
36	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 habitations	amod
37	habitations	habitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 river	nmod
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 Alsigontegok	punct
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 Alsigontegok	punct
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past				French Canada		once property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to canada=Initial_Location
2	settle	past	Abenakis = abenaki	Abenakis = abenaki		Abenakis's present village of Francis St.		near Pierreville and Quebec	vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in village=Location

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 107