Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 131
A priest of God came to an Indian town And settled there to teach the people truth, Which some received and others spurned with scorn.
Who acts: priest, people truth, others · What happens: come, settle, teach, receive, spurn · To what, where: Indian town, people truth
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (priest, people truth, others), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 God | case |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 priest | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 settled | cc |
| 11 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 settled | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 teach | mark |
| 14 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 settled | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 truth | compound |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 teach | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 received | punct |
| 19 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 received | nsubj |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 received | nsubj |
| 21 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 truth | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spurned | cc |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spurned | nsubj |
| 24 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 received | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 scorn | case |
| 26 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spurned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a priest of God | a Indian town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | settle | past | a priest of God not said here | there | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | a priest of God not said here | the people truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | the people truth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spurn | past | others | with scorn | 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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