Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
The name Passamaquoddy is a purely local term, meaning “spearers of pollock fish” (_peskátum_).
Who acts: name, local term · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: local term, spearers
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 (name, local term), 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 | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 term | nsubj |
| 3 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | appos |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 term | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 term | det |
| 6 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 7 local | advmod |
| 7 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 term | amod |
| 8 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meaning | punct |
| 10 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 term | acl |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 spearers | punct |
| 12 | spearers | spearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 meaning | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fish | case |
| 14 | pollock | pollock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fish | compound |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spearers | nmod |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 spearers | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 peskátum | punct |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 peskátum | punct |
| 19 | peskátum | peskátum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spearers | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 peskátum | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 peskátum | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 term | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | a local term | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a local term not said here | spearers of pollock fish and peskátum | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spearer=Topic |
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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