Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 87

I cannot see a meaning in the word _Wabanaki_, “land of the dawn or east,” which points to any period further back than the time of these peoples’ first tribal centralization on the present eastern coast of North America.

Who acts: I, peoples · What happens: not see, point, centralize · To what, where: meaning, word, period, present eastern coast

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 (I, peoples), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meaning	det
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 word	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 word	det
9	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Wabanaki	punct
11	Wabanaki	Wabanaki	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ”	nsubj
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Wabanaki	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 land	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 land	punct
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Wabanaki	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dawn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dawn	det
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 land	nmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 east	cc
20	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dawn	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ”	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 points	nsubj
24	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 period	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 period	det
27	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 points	obl
28	further	further	ADV	_	29 back	advmod
29	back	back	ADV	_	24 points	advmod
30	than	than	ADP	_	32 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 points	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	39 centralization	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 peoples	det
35	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 centralization	nmod:poss
36	’	's	PART	_	35 peoples	case
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	39 centralization	amod
38	tribal	tribal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 centralization	amod
39	centralization	centralization	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	44 coast	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 coast	det
42	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 coast	amod
43	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 coast	amod
44	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 points	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 America	case
46	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 America	compound
47	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 coast	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	I	a meaning		the word		Wabanaki nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
2	point	present			any period	the present eastern coast of North America	time	which nsubj	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to period=Recipient
3	centralize		this peoples						nom centralization «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 87