Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 109
When all the speeches had been delivered, it was decided to erect an extensive fence and within it to build a large wigwam.
Who acts: pity · What happens: deliver, decide, erect, build · To what, where: speeches, pity, extensive fence, large wigwam
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 (pity), 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 | 7 delivered | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 speeches | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speeches | det |
| 4 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delivered | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 delivered | aux:pass |
| 7 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 decided | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 decided | aux:pass |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 delivered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 erect | mark |
| 13 | erect | erect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fence | det |
| 15 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fence | amod |
| 16 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 erect | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 build | cc |
| 18 | within | within | ADP | _ | 21 build | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 build | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 build | mark |
| 21 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 erect | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wigwam | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wigwam | amod |
| 24 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 build | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past · perfect · passive | all speeches | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | decide | past · passive | pity | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | erect not said to happen | to-infinitive | a extensive fence | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=Product | |||||
| 4 | build | to-infinitive | pity | a large wigwam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wigwam=Product |
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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