Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 54
On this occasion the Passamaquoddies were on a friendly visit to the Micmacs, during which the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac chiefs went shooting together.
Who acts: Passamaquoddies, sons · What happens: be, go, shoot · To what, where: friendly visit
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 (Passamaquoddies, sons), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasion | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 occasion | det |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 visit | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 5 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 visit | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 visit | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 visit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 visit | det |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 visit | amod |
| 10 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Micmacs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Micmacs | det |
| 13 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 visit | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 went | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sons | det |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 went | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Passamaquoddy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Passamaquoddy | det |
| 21 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sons | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Micmac | cc |
| 23 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Passamaquoddy | conj |
| 24 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 visit | conj |
| 26 | shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 went | xcomp |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 shooting | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 visit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Passamaquoddies | a friendly visit | on this occasion; to the Micmacs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac | during a friendly visit | chiefs nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | shoot | gerund | the sons of the Passamaquoddy and Micmac not said here | together property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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