Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
The Wabanaki nation consisted of five tribes: Passamaquoddies, Penobscots, Micmacs, Milicetes, and the tribe, now extinct, which formerly inhabited the banks of the Kennebec River.
Who acts: Wabanaki nation · What happens: consist, inhabit · To what, where: tribe, banks
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 (Wabanaki nation), 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 nation | det |
| 2 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nation | compound |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | nsubj |
| 4 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tribes | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tribes | nummod |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consisted | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Passamaquoddies | punct |
| 9 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tribes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Penobscots | punct |
| 11 | Penobscots | penobscot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Micmacs | punct |
| 13 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Milicetes | punct |
| 15 | Milicetes | Milicetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Passamaquoddies | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tribe | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tribe | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tribe | det |
| 19 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 extinct | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 extinct | advmod |
| 22 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 consisted | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inhabited | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 inhabited | nsubj |
| 25 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 26 inhabited | advmod |
| 26 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 extinct | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 banks | det |
| 28 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inhabited | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 River | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 River | det |
| 31 | Kennebec | Kennebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 River | compound |
| 32 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 banks | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the Wabanaki nation | the tribe | of five tribes and Passamaquoddies and Penobscots and Micmacs and Milicetes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inhabit | past | the banks of the Kennebec River | which nsubj; formerly 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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