Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 110
It is interesting to notice that the Canadian Abenakis are the only one of the Wabanaki clans which calls itself by the generic name (_Abenaki-Wabanaki_).
Who acts: Canadian Abenakis, Wabanaki clans · What happens: be, notice, call · To what, where: only one, doubt · 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 (Canadian Abenakis, Wabanaki clans), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 interesting | cop |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 notice | mark |
| 5 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 interesting | csubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 one | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Abenakis | det |
| 8 | Canadian | Canadian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Abenakis | amod |
| 9 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 notice | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 clans | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clans | det |
| 16 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 clans | compound |
| 17 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 calls | nsubj |
| 19 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 clans | acl:relcl |
| 20 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 calls | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 name | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 name | det |
| 23 | generic | generic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 name | amod |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calls | obl |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Abenaki | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Abenaki | punct |
| 27 | Abenaki | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 name | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wabanaki | punct |
| 29 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Abenaki | conj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Abenaki | punct |
| 31 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 Abenaki | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Canadian Abenakis | the only one | of the Wabanaki clans | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call | present | the Wabanaki clans | doubt | by the generic name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
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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