Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 16, sentence 90
When in the morning They heard the signal, The song of awaking, Ring from the birch-tree, The mighty armies Again assembled; The chiefs held council; Thus spoke Sexkâtû While all were silent:
Who acts: warriors, Ring, chiefs, all, awaking · What happens: hear, assemble, hold, speak, be, sing · To what, where: signal, council, Sexkâtû · 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 (warriors, Ring, chiefs, all), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 assembled | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 signal | det |
| 8 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 song | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signal | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 awaking | case |
| 13 | awaking | awaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 15 | Ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 assembled | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 birch | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Ring | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 armies | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 armies | det |
| 23 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 armies | amod |
| 24 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Ring | conj |
| 25 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 26 assembled | advmod |
| 26 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 held | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chiefs | det |
| 29 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 held | nsubj |
| 30 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 assembled | conj |
| 31 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 held | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 spoke | punct |
| 33 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 34 spoke | advmod |
| 34 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 assembled | conj |
| 35 | Sexkâtû | Sexkâtû | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 spoke | obj |
| 36 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 silent | mark |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 silent | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 silent | cop |
| 39 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 spoke | advcl |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | warriors = warrior | the signal | morning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer signal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | assemble | past | Ring from the birch tree and the mighty armies | again | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | the chiefs | council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | Ring from the birch tree and the mighty armies not said here | Sexkâtû | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | all | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing | awaking | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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