Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 101

The leading Chief then spoke as follows: “As we look back upon our bloodstained trail, we see that many wrongs have been done by all of our people.

Who acts: leading Chief, we · What happens: lead, speak, follow, look back, see, do · To what, where: many wrongs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (leading Chief, we), 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	3 Chief	det
2	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Chief	amod
3	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoke	nsubj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 spoke	advmod
5	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 follows	mark
7	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	ccomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
10	As	as	SCONJ	_	12 look	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 see	advcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 trail	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 trail	nmod:poss
16	bloodstained	bloodstained	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trail	amod
17	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 spoke	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 done	mark
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wrongs	amod
23	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 done	nsubj:pass
24	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 done	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 done	aux:pass
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 done	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 people	nmod:poss
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 all	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lead	gerund					vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	speak speech: other	past	the leading Chief		then		tree rules
3	follow	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look back in a quote	present	we			upon our bloodstained trail	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon trail=Theme
5	see in a quote	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do in a quote	present · perfect · passive		many wrongs		by all of our people	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 101