Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 92
Passamaquoddy tradition has it that the Wampum Records (i.e., the actual laws) were read ceremonially every year at Caughnawauga, the Iroquois headquarters.
Who acts: Passamaquoddy tradition · What happens: have, read · To what, where: record, Wampum Records, Caughnawauga
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 (Passamaquoddy tradition), 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 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tradition | compound |
| 2 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 read | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Records | det |
| 7 | Wampum | Wampum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Records | compound |
| 8 | Records | Record | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 read | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 i.e. | punct |
| 10 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 8 Records | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laws | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 laws | det |
| 13 | actual | actual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 laws | amod |
| 14 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Records | conj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Records | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 read | aux:pass |
| 17 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 has | advcl |
| 18 | ceremonially | ceremonially | ADV | _ | 17 read | advmod |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 read | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 Caughnawauga | case |
| 22 | Caughnawauga | Caughnawauga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 read | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 headquarters | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 headquarters | det |
| 25 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 headquarters | compound |
| 26 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 Caughnawauga | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Passamaquoddy tradition | record | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | read | past · passive | the Wampum Records and the actual laws | Caughnawauga | year | ceremonially property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at caughnawauga=Value |
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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