Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 29
Among the following poems and tales will be found selections taken from Passamaquoddies, Penobscots, Abenakis, Micmacs and Delawares, all of which tribes are members of the so-called Wabanaki branch of the Algonkin stock and are consequently nearly related in language and folk-lore.
Who acts: tribes, members · What happens: follow, find, be, take, call · To what, where: found selections, Passamaquoddies, members, Wabanaki branch, 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 (tribes, members), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 poems | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 poems | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 poems | amod |
| 4 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tales | cc |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poems | conj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 selections | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 selections | cop |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 selections | amod |
| 10 | selections | selection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poems | conj |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 selections | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Passamaquoddies | case |
| 13 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Penobscots | punct |
| 15 | Penobscots | penobscot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Abenakis | punct |
| 17 | Abenakis | Abenakis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Passamaquoddies | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Micmacs | punct |
| 19 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Delawares | cc |
| 21 | Delawares | delaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poems | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 tribes | det |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 26 tribes | det |
| 26 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 members | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 members | cop |
| 28 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 poems | conj |
| 29 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 called | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 called | det |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 called | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 so | punct |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 members | acl |
| 34 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 branch | compound |
| 35 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | xcomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 stock | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stock | det |
| 38 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 stock | compound |
| 39 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 branch | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 related | cc |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 related | cop |
| 42 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 44 related | advmod |
| 43 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 44 related | advmod |
| 44 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 called | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 language | case |
| 46 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 related | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 lore | cc |
| 48 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 lore | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 folk | punct |
| 50 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 language | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 poems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | future | found selections | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take | participle | found selections not said here | Passamaquoddies Abenakis and Penobscots and Micmacs and Delawares | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from passamaquoddy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | all tribes | members | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | members not said here | Wabanaki branch of the Algonkin stock | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | present | members not said here | language and folk lore | consequently, nearly, related property | 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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