Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 82
The chief of the squirrels Gave out the order: “Let the battle begin!”
Who acts: chief, battle · What happens: give out, let, begin · To what, where: order, battle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, battle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 squirrels | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 squirrels | det |
| 5 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chief | nmod |
| 6 | Gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 Gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 order | det |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Gave | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 Gave | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 battle | det |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Let | obj |
| 15 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 battle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give out | past | the chief of the squirrels | the order | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | present | the battle not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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