Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 42
Any missionary to the Passamaquoddies, or to their kindred, the New Brunswick Milicetes, the Penobscots of Oldtown, Me., or to the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec, will admit that belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among these Indians has by no means died out.
Who acts: Brunswick Milicetes, belief, no · What happens: admit, have, mean, die out · To what, where: kindred, missionary · 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: who acts (Brunswick Milicetes, belief, no), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 missionary | det |
| 2 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Passamaquoddies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Passamaquoddies | det |
| 5 | Passamaquoddies | passamaquoddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 missionary | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 admit | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 admit | cc |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 kindred | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 admit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kindred | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Milicetes | det |
| 13 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Brunswick | amod |
| 14 | Brunswick | Brunswick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Milicetes | compound |
| 15 | Milicetes | Milicetes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 admit | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Penobscots | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Penobscots | det |
| 18 | Penobscots | Penobscot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Milicetes | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Oldtown | case |
| 20 | Oldtown | Oldtown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Penobscots | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Me | punct |
| 22 | Me | Me | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Oldtown | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Milicetes | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Micmacs | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Micmacs | cc |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Micmacs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Micmacs | det |
| 28 | Micmacs | micmac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Milicetes | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Abenakis | cc |
| 30 | Abenakis | Abenaki | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 Milicetes | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Quebec | case |
| 32 | Quebec | Quebec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Abenakis | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Milicetes | punct |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 admit | aux |
| 35 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 missionary | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 has | mark |
| 37 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 has | nsubj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sorcery | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sorcery | det |
| 40 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sorcery | amod |
| 41 | Shamanistic | shamanistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 sorcery | amod |
| 42 | sorcery | sorcery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 belief | nmod |
| 43 | among | among | ADP | _ | 45 Indians | case |
| 44 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 Indians | det |
| 45 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 42 sorcery | nmod |
| 46 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 admit | advcl |
| 47 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 49 means | mark |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 means | nsubj |
| 49 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 has | advcl |
| 50 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 means | ccomp |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 50 died | compound:prt |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 missionary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | future | the Brunswick Milicetes and the Penobscots of Oldtown and Me or the Micmacs and Abenakis of Quebec | Passamaquoddies's kindred | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kindred=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | belief in the ancient Shamanistic sorcery among this Indians | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | die out | past | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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