Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
Then the Master entered the wigwam Where Pûjinskwes sat waiting, Waiting for him as dead, Waiting for him as food.
Who acts: Master, Pûjinskwes · What happens: enter, sit, wait · To what, where: wigwam
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: who acts (Master, Pûjinskwes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Master | det |
| 3 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wigwam | det |
| 6 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 sat | advmod |
| 8 | Pûjinskwes | Pûjinskwes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wigwam | acl:relcl |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sat | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Waiting | punct |
| 12 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 waiting | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Waiting | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 dead | case |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Waiting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Waiting | punct |
| 18 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 waiting | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Waiting | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Waiting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Master | the wigwam | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wigwam=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Pûjinskwes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Pûjinskwes not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | Pûjinskwes not said here | for Pûjinskwes; as dead | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | Pûjinskwes not said here | for Pûjinskwes; as food | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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