Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 33
The Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point, Me., numbering about five hundred in all, are identical with the Milicetes or Etchemins of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Who acts: Passamaquoddy Indians · What happens: number, be · To what, where: five hundred, all
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 (Passamaquoddy Indians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Indians | det |
| 2 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | compound |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 identical | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Point | case |
| 5 | Pleasant | Pleasant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Point | compound |
| 6 | Point | Point | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Indians | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Me | punct |
| 8 | Me | Me | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Point | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indians | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 numbering | punct |
| 11 | numbering | number | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Indians | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 hundred | advmod |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hundred | compound |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 numbering | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hundred | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Indians | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 identical | cop |
| 19 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Milicetes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Milicetes | det |
| 22 | Milicetes | Milicetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 identical | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Etchemins | cc |
| 24 | Etchemins | Etchemins | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Milicetes | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Brunswick | case |
| 26 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Brunswick | amod |
| 27 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Etchemins | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Nova | cc |
| 29 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Milicetes | conj |
| 30 | Scotia | Scotia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Nova | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 identical | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | number | gerund | the Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point and Me not said here | five hundred | in all goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme in all=Goal | |||
| 2 | is | present | the Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point and Me | with the Milicetes or Etchemins of New Brunswick and Nova; identical 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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