Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 119
The father ruling the wigwam was the Great Chief who lived at Caughnawaga.
Who acts: father, Great Chief · What happens: rule, be, live · To what, where: wigwam, Great Chief, Caughnawaga
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 (father, Great Chief), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Chief | nsubj |
| 3 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 father | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wigwam | det |
| 5 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ruling | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Chief | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Chief | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Chief | amod |
| 9 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Chief | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Caughnawaga | case |
| 13 | Caughnawaga | Caughnawaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | gerund | the father not said here | the wigwam | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the father | the Great Chief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the Great Chief | Caughnawaga | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at caughnawaga=Location |
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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