Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 61
The Passamaquoddy tale given below of the _Kiwaʿkw_ or snow demon is one of a great number.
Who acts: Passamaquoddy tale · What happens: give, be · To what, where: Passamaquoddy tale, Kiwaʿkw, one
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 (Passamaquoddy tale), 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 | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | compound |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tale | acl |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 9 Kiwaʿkw | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 below | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Kiwaʿkw | det |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 9 | Kiwaʿkw | Kiwaʿkw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kiwaʿkw | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 demon | cc |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 demon | compound |
| 13 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Kiwaʿkw | conj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 number | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 number | amod |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | the Passamaquoddy tale not said here | the Kiwaʿkw or snow demon | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the Passamaquoddy tale | one | of a great number | tree rules |
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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