Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

These people are by far the most interesting remnant of the Wabanaki, as they still retain an unusually extensive oral literature, embracing love poems, legends, and historical tales of considerable value.

Who acts: people, considerable value · What happens: be, retain, embrace, tell · To what, where: interesting remnant, extensive oral literature, love poems · 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 (people, considerable value), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remnant	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 remnant	cop
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 far	case
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 remnant	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 remnant	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 interesting	advmod
8	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 remnant	amod
9	remnant	remnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Wabanaki	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wabanaki	det
12	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 remnant	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 retain	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 retain	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 retain	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 retain	advmod
17	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 remnant	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 literature	det
19	unusually	unusually	ADV	_	20 extensive	advmod
20	extensive	extensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 literature	amod
21	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 literature	amod
22	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 retain	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 embracing	punct
24	embracing	embrace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 retain	advcl
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 poems	compound
26	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 embracing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 legends	punct
28	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 poems	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tales	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tales	cc
31	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tales	amod
32	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remnant	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 value	case
34	considerable	considerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 value	amod
35	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tales	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 remnant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this people	the interesting remnant		of the Wabanaki; historical tales of considerable value nmod	tree rules
2	retain	present	people	a extensive oral literature	still		tree rules
3	embrace	gerund	people not said here	love poems and legends			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Co-Agent
4	tell		considerable value				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 36