Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 81
In every such case the Micmac tales came through a Passamaquoddy medium, who, whenever he was ignorant of the proper Micmac word, used the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, but elsewhere employed Micmac words.
Who acts: Micmac tales, Passamaquoddy medium · What happens: come, be, use, correspond, employ · To what, where: such case, corresponding Passamaquoddy expression, Micmac words
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 (Micmac tales, Passamaquoddy medium), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 case | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 case | det |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 case | amod |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tales | det |
| 6 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tales | compound |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 medium | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 medium | det |
| 11 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 medium | compound |
| 12 | medium | medium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ignorant | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 ignorant | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ignorant | punct |
| 16 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 ignorant | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 ignorant | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ignorant | cop |
| 19 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 medium | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 word | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 22 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 word | amod |
| 23 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 word | compound |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ignorant | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 used | punct |
| 26 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 expression | det |
| 28 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 expression | amod |
| 29 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 expression | compound |
| 30 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 used | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 employed | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 employed | cc |
| 33 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 34 employed | advmod |
| 34 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 35 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 words | compound |
| 36 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 employed | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Micmac tales | every such case | through a Passamaquoddy medium | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through medium=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | a Passamaquoddy medium | of the proper Micmac word; tale nsubj; ignorant, whenever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past | the Micmac tales not said here | the corresponding Passamaquoddy expression | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient | ||||
| 4 | correspond | gerund | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | employ | past | the Micmac tales not said here | Micmac words | elsewhere property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
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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