Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 120
The whip in his hand was the type of the Wampum laws, disobedience to which was punishable by consent of all the tribes mentioned in the treaty.
Who acts: whip, disobedience · What happens: be, mention, consent · To what, where: type, Wampum laws, treaty, tribes
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 (whip, disobedience), 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 whip | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 type | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whip | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 type | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 type | det |
| 8 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 laws | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laws | det |
| 11 | Wampum | Wampum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 laws | compound |
| 12 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 type | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disobedience | punct |
| 14 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mentioned | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 punishable | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 punishable | cop |
| 18 | punishable | punishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 disobedience | appos |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 consent | case |
| 20 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 punishable | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tribes | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 tribes | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tribes | det |
| 24 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 consent | nmod |
| 25 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laws | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 treaty | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 treaty | det |
| 28 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mentioned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 type | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the whip in chief's hand | the type | of the Wampum laws | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | to disobedience; by consent of all tribes; punishable property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | past | disobedience | the Wampum laws not said here | the treaty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent law=Topic | |||
| 4 | consent | all tribes | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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