Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 26
But which they had been trained to believe Was, “Hie at them!”
What happens: train, believe, hie · To what, where: Was · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 trained | cc |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 trained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 trained | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 trained | aux:pass |
| 6 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trained | xcomp |
| 9 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 believe | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hie | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hie | punct |
| 12 | Hie | hie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 believe | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Hie | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 trained | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | train | past · perfect · passive | which nsubj:pass; entrails = entrail nsubj:pass | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive | Was | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer was=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hie in a quote | infinitive | at entrails = entrail | 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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