Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 104
For seven days, from morning till night, a strict silence was observed, during which each representative deliberated on the speech he should make and tried to discover the best means for checking the war.
Who acts: representative · What happens: observe, deliberate, make, try, discover, mean · To what, where: strict silence, representative, best, war
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 (representative), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 observed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 morning | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | appos |
| 7 | till | till | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 silence | det |
| 11 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 silence | amod |
| 12 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 observed | aux:pass |
| 14 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 means | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 make | obl |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 representative | det |
| 19 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | nsubj |
| 20 | deliberated | deliberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 representative | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 speech | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 speech | det |
| 23 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deliberated | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 observed | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tried | cc |
| 28 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 discover | mark |
| 30 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 tried | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 best | det |
| 32 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 discover | obj |
| 33 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 35 checking | mark |
| 35 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 means | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 war | det |
| 37 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 checking | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past · passive | a strict silence | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deliberate | participle | each representative not said here | on the speech | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on speech=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | should | each representative | which obl; speech nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | try | past | each representative not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | discover not said to happen | to-infinitive | each representative not said here | the best | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | check | gerund | the war | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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