Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 103
It was decided, therefore, by all concerned to make a general _Lagootwagon_ or treaty of peace, and a day was appointed when they should begin the rites.
Who acts: tomahawks · What happens: decide, make, appoint, begin · To what, where: news, general Lagootwagon, rites · 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 (tomahawks), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | aux:pass |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 concerned | punct |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 concerned | mark |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 concerned | det |
| 9 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 decided | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 concerned | csubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lagootwagon | det |
| 13 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lagootwagon | amod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 general | punct |
| 15 | Lagootwagon | Lagootwagon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Lagootwagon | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 treaty | cc |
| 18 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lagootwagon | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treaty | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 appointed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appointed | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appointed | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 appointed | aux:pass |
| 26 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 decided | conj |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 begin | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 begin | nsubj |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 begin | aux |
| 30 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 appointed | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rites | det |
| 32 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 begin | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · passive | news | therefore property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | a general Lagootwagon or treaty of peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lagootwagon=Product | |||||
| 3 | appoint | past · passive | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | begin | should | tomahawks = tomahawk | the rites | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rite=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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