Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 25

The lore of the Maine and eastern Canadian Wabanaki may be said to center chiefly around the clown-like being known to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and to the Penobscots as Klûskâbe.

What happens: say, center, know · To what, where: lore, clown · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 lore	det
2	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Maine	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Maine	det
5	Maine	Maine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lore	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Canadian	cc
7	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Canadian	amod
8	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Maine	conj
9	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Canadian	flat
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	aux:pass
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 center	mark
14	center	center	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	xcomp
15	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	14 center	advmod
16	around	around	ADP	_	18 clown	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 clown	det
18	clown	clown	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 center	obl
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 clown	punct
20	like	like	SCONJ	_	22 known	mark
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 known	aux:pass
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 clown	acl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Passamaquoddies	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Passamaquoddies	det
25	Passamaquoddies	passamaquoddy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 known	obl
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 Kulóskap	case
27	Kulóskap	Kulóskap	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Passamaquoddies	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Penobscots	cc
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 Penobscots	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Penobscots	det
31	Penobscots	penobscot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Passamaquoddies	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 Klûskâbe	case
33	Klûskâbe	Klûskâbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 known	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may · passive	the lore of the Maine			tree rules
2	center	to-infinitive		the clown	chiefly property	vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	know	gerund · passive	the clown not said here		to the Passamaquoddies as Kulóskap and the Penobscots; as Klûskâbe	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as klûskâbe=Attribute

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 25