Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 37
It is evident that the Passamaquoddy tradition embodied in this part of the Wampum Records refers to these proposals made by their Iroquois neighbors.
Who acts: object, Passamaquoddy tradition · What happens: be, embody, refer, make · To what, where: Passamaquoddy tradition, part, proposals
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 (object, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 evident | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 evident | cop |
| 3 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 refers | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tradition | det |
| 6 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tradition | compound |
| 7 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 refers | nsubj |
| 8 | embodied | embody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tradition | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 part | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 part | det |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embodied | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Records | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Records | det |
| 14 | Wampum | Wampum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Records | compound |
| 15 | Records | Record | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 part | nmod |
| 16 | refers | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 evident | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 proposals | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 proposals | det |
| 19 | proposals | proposal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 refers | obl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 proposals | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 neighbors | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Iroquois | iroquois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 neighbors | compound |
| 24 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | object | evident property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embody | participle | the Passamaquoddy tradition not said here | this part of the Wampum Records | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refer | present | the Passamaquoddy tradition | to this proposals | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to proposal=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | this proposals not said here | by tradition's Iroquois neighbors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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