Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 36
Kulóskap was first, First and greatest, To come into our land-- Into Nova Scotia, Canada, Into Maine, into Wabanaki, The land of sunrise, or light.
Who acts: Kulóskap · What happens: be, come · To what, where: light, land
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kulóskap), 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 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 greatest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 greatest | cop |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 First | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 First | punct |
| 5 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 greatest | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 greatest | cc |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 9 | To | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 greatest | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 land | nmod:poss |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Scotia | punct |
| 15 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 17 Scotia | case |
| 16 | Nova | Nova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Scotia | compound |
| 17 | Scotia | Scotia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Canada | punct |
| 19 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Scotia | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Maine | punct |
| 21 | Into | Into | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Maine | compound |
| 22 | Maine | Maine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Scotia | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Wabanaki | punct |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Wabanaki | case |
| 25 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 land | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Wabanaki | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 sunrise | case |
| 30 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 land | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 light | punct |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 light | cc |
| 33 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 greatest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Kulóskap | first, great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Kulóskap not said here | light | our land | into Nova Scotia Into Maine; into Wabanaki | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location into scotia=Destination |
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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