Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 14, sentence 137
Soon, when they thought the glow was great enough, They first of all laid hands upon the Priest.
Who acts: Mohawks, glow · What happens: think, be, lay · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mohawks, glow), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 thought | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glow | det |
| 7 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 great | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 great | cop |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 great | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 12 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nsubj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 hands | advmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hands | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hands | det |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hands | amod |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 Priest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Priest | det |
| 20 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 hands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Mohawks = mohawk | all laid hands Mohawks upon the Priest ccomp; soon property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the glow | enough, great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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