Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 82

The Indian headings to the stories are nearly all in Passamaquoddy because the _raconteurs_ generally began in this dialect, even when they broke into Micmac or Penobscot in continuing the tale in question.

Who acts: Indian headings, _ raconteurs, headings · What happens: be, begin, break, continue · To what, where: _ raconteurs, dialect, Micmac, tale, question

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 (Indian headings, _ raconteurs, headings), 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 headings	det
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 headings	amod
3	headings	heading	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 raconteurs	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 headings	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 raconteurs	cop
8	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	9 all	advmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	15 raconteurs	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Passamaquoddy	case
11	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 all	obl
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 raconteurs	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 raconteurs	det
14	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 raconteurs	amod
15	raconteurs	raconteur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	generally	generally	ADV	_	18 began	advmod
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 raconteurs	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dialect	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 dialect	det
21	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broke	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 broke	advmod
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 broke	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 broke	nsubj
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 began	conj
27	into	into	ADP	_	28 Micmac	case
28	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 Penobscot	cc
30	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Micmac	conj
31	in	in	SCONJ	_	32 continuing	mark
32	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 broke	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tale	det
34	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 continuing	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 question	case
36	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 continuing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 raconteurs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Indian headings to the stories	the _ raconteurs		all property	tree rules
2	begin	past	the _ raconteurs not said here		this dialect	generally property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	break	past	headings = heading			into Micmac or Penobscot result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into micmac=Result
4	continue	gerund	headings = heading not said here	the tale	question		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tale=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 82