Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 5

The story of the enforced westward wanderings of the ill-fated Delawares or Lenâpe has been told in detail by my late friend Dr. Brinton (“The Lenâpe and their Legends,” pp.

Who acts: late friend · What happens: enforce, tell, wander · To what, where: story, pp, detail, fated Delawares · 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 (late friend), 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 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 wanderings	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wanderings	det
5	enforced	enforce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wanderings	amod
6	westward	westward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wanderings	amod
7	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 story	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 Delawares	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Delawares	det
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fated	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ill	punct
12	fated	fated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Delawares	amod
13	Delawares	delaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wanderings	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 Lenâpe	cc
15	Lenâpe	Lenâpe	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Delawares	conj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 told	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 told	aux:pass
18	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 detail	case
20	detail	detail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 friend	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
23	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 friend	amod
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl:agent
25	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Brinton	nmod:desc
26	Brinton	Brinton	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 friend	appos
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 Lenâpe	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Lenâpe	punct
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Lenâpe	det
30	Lenâpe	Lenâpe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Brinton	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Legends	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 Legends	nmod:poss
33	Legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 friend	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pp	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 pp	punct
36	pp	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	iobj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	enforce	participle					vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive	my late friend and Micmacs's Legends	the story of the enforced westward wanderings of the fated Delawares or Lenâpe	pp	detail	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient page=Topic
3	wander			the fated Delawares or Lenâpe			nom wandering «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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 5