Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 290
Wabanaki, “the land of the dawn, or east” (P. and Pen.); in A. _Woñbanaki_, from _woñban_, “dawn” (lit., “whitening”) + _aki_, “land.”
Who acts: Wabanaki · What happens: lit, whiten · To what, where: dawn, Wabanaki
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wabanaki), 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 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 land | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 land | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 land | det |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dawn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dawn | det |
| 8 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 east | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 east | cc |
| 11 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | conj |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 east | punct |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 P. | punct |
| 14 | P. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 east | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Pen | cc |
| 16 | Pen | Penn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 P. | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 P. | punct |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 P. | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 A. | case |
| 21 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | nmod |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Woñbanaki | punct |
| 23 | Woñbanaki | Woñbanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | conj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 woñban | punct |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 woñban | case |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 from | punct |
| 28 | woñban | woñban | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wabanaki | parataxis |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 woñban | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dawn | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 dawn | punct |
| 32 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | appos |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 dawn | punct |
| 34 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 lit | punct |
| 35 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 dawn | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 lit | punct |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 whitening | punct |
| 38 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 whitening | punct |
| 39 | whitening | whiten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Wabanaki | acl:relcl |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 whitening | punct |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 whitening | punct |
| 42 | + | + | SYM | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 44 aki | punct |
| 44 | aki | aki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | conj |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 land | punct |
| 47 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 land | punct |
| 48 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wabanaki | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wabanaki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | participle | dawn not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | whiten in a quote | gerund | Wabanaki in A. and Woñbanaki and aki not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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