Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 13, sentence 61
Solemn and grim was the banquet, All knew that the chief was going, And knew, too, why he would leave them.
Who acts: chief, lord · What happens: be, know, go, leave · To what, where: Solemn banquet, chief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, lord), 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 | Solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 banquet | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 grim | cc |
| 3 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Solemn | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 banquet | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 banquet | det |
| 6 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 knew | advmod |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 going | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 knew | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 too | punct |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 knew | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leave | punct |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 leave | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 leave | aux |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knew | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 leave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Solemn banquet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | the chief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | leave | would | lord | chief | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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