Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
The Passamaquoddies, however, appear never to have advanced beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids.
Who acts: Passamaquoddies · What happens: appear, not advance, use · To what, where: wampum strings
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 2 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Passamaquoddies | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 appear | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 advanced | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 advanced | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 advanced | aux |
| 10 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 appear | advcl |
| 11 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 use | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 use | det |
| 13 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advanced | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 strings | case |
| 15 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strings | compound |
| 16 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 use | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 aids | case |
| 18 | mnemonic | mnemonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 aids | amod |
| 19 | aids | aid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 strings | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the Passamaquoddies | however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not advance | to-infinitive · perfect | the Passamaquoddies not said here | beyond the use of wampum strings as mnemonic aids | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | use | wampum strings as mnemonic aids | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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