Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
On one occasion, the Passamaquoddies went to Tlancowatik, thirty miles west of St. John, N.
Who acts: Passamaquoddies · What happens: go · To what, where: Tlancowatik, one occasion
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), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 occasion | nummod |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 occasion | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 6 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Tlancowatik | case |
| 9 | Tlancowatik | Tlancowatik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 west | punct |
| 11 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 miles | nummod |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 west | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | west | west | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 John | case |
| 15 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 John | nmod:desc |
| 16 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 west | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 N | punct |
| 18 | N | N | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 John | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Passamaquoddies | Tlancowatik | one occasion | west property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tlancowatik=Initial_Location |
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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