Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 87

This _Wababi Agʾnodmâgon_, as I received it, is really an historical account transmitted orally by elderly men whose memories had been especially trained for the purpose from early youth.

Who acts: I, Wababi · What happens: receive, be, transmit, train · To what, where: ratification, historical account, memories

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 (I, Wababi), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Wababi	nsubj
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 Wababi	punct
3	Wababi	Wababi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 account	nsubj
4	Agʾnodmâgon	Agʾnodmâgon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wababi	flat
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 received	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 received	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 received	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 received	nsubj
9	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Wababi	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 received	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Wababi	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 account	cop
13	really	really	ADV	_	16 account	advmod
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 account	det
15	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 account	amod
16	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	transmitted	transmit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 account	acl
18	orally	orally	ADV	_	17 transmitted	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	elderly	elderly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 transmitted	obl
22	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	23 memories	nmod:poss
23	memories	memory	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 trained	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 trained	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 trained	aux:pass
26	especially	especially	ADV	_	27 trained	advmod
27	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 men	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 purpose	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 purpose	det
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trained	obl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 youth	case
32	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 youth	amod
33	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 purpose	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 account	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	I	ratification		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is a	present	Wababi This	a historical account		tree rules
3	transmit	participle		a historical account not said here	by elderly men; orally property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	train	past · perfect · passive		memories	for the purpose from early youth; especially property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 87