Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 100
When all the delegates were assembled they began to deliberate concerning what was best to do, as they all seemed tired of their evil lives.
Who acts: delegates · What happens: assemble, begin, deliberate, concern, be, do · To what, where: delegates
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delegates), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 6 assembled | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 delegates | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 delegates | det |
| 4 | delegates | delegate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assembled | aux:pass |
| 6 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 seemed | advcl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assembled | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 deliberate | mark |
| 10 | deliberate | deliberate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 best | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 best | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 best | cop |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 deliberate | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 best | csubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 seemed | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 they | det |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lives | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lives | amod |
| 26 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tired | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past · passive | all delegates | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | delegates = delegate | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | deliberate | to-infinitive | delegates = delegate not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | what nsubj; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | seem | past | delegates = delegate | tired property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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