Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 115
The fence typified a treaty of peace for all the Indian nations who took part in the council, fourteen in number, of which there are many tribes.
Who acts: fence, Indian nations, many tribes · What happens: typify, take, be · To what, where: treaty, part, council
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 (fence, Indian nations, many tribes), 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 | 2 fence | det |
| 2 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 typified | nsubj |
| 3 | typified | typify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 treaty | det |
| 5 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 typified | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 peace | case |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treaty | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 nations | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 nations | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nations | det |
| 11 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nations | amod |
| 12 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 treaty | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nations | acl:relcl |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 council | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 council | det |
| 18 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fourteen | punct |
| 20 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 are | punct |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 are | obl |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 are | expl |
| 27 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tribes | amod |
| 29 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 are | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 typified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | typify | past | the fence | a treaty of peace | for all Indian nations | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | all Indian nations | part | the council | in number; fourteen obl | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in council=Location | ||
| 3 | does | present | many tribes | there | which obl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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