Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
This term _Wabanaki_ or _Oñbanaki_ (Abenaki) means “land of the dawn or east,” and undoubtedly points to that section of country in which these people first established tribal relations.
Who acts: term, people · What happens: mean, point, establish, section · To what, where: land, section, tribal relations, country
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 (term, people), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 term | det |
| 2 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wabanaki | punct |
| 4 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 term | appos |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Wabanaki | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Oñbanaki | cc |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oñbanaki | punct |
| 8 | Oñbanaki | Oñbanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 term | conj |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oñbanaki | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Abenaki | punct |
| 11 | Abenaki | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Oñbanaki | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Abenaki | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dawn | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dawn | det |
| 18 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 land | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 east | cc |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dawn | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 points | cc |
| 24 | undoubtedly | undoubtedly | ADV | _ | 25 points | advmod |
| 25 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 section | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 section | det |
| 28 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 points | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 country | case |
| 30 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 section | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 established | obl |
| 33 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 established | nsubj |
| 35 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 established | advmod |
| 36 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 section | acl:relcl |
| 37 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 relations | amod |
| 38 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 established | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this term or Oñbanaki | land of the dawn or east | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Topic | ||||
| 2 | point | present | this term or Oñbanaki not said here | that section of country | undoubtedly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to section=Recipient | |||
| 3 | establish | past | this people | tribal relations | that section of country | first property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient | ||
| 4 | section | country | nom section «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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