Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 93
This custom of preserving records by means of a mnemonic system was peculiar to all the tribes of the Algonkin race as well as to the Iroquoian clans.
Who acts: custom, mnemonic system · What happens: preserve, mean, be · To what, where: records
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 (custom, mnemonic system), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 custom | det |
| 2 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 preserving | mark |
| 4 | preserving | preserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 custom | acl |
| 5 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 preserving | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 preserving | fixed |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peculiar | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 system | det |
| 10 | mnemonic | mnemonic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 system | compound |
| 11 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peculiar | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 peculiar | cop |
| 13 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 tribes | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tribes | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tribes | det |
| 17 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 peculiar | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 race | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 race | det |
| 20 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 race | compound |
| 21 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tribes | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 28 clans | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 clans | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 clans | det |
| 27 | Iroquoian | iroquoian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clans | amod |
| 28 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 race | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | gerund | this custom not said here | records | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | this custom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a mnemonic system | of peculiar; to all tribes of the Algonkin race as the Iroquoian clans | 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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