Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 121

After this, they proceeded to make lesser laws, all of which were to be recorded by means of wampum, in order that they could be read to the Indians from time to time.

Who acts: tribes · What happens: proceed, make, record, mean, read · To what, where: lesser laws, all, tribes, Indians

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 (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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 proceeded	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proceeded	nsubj
5	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 proceeded	xcomp
8	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 laws	amod
9	laws	law	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recorded	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 recorded	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 all	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 recorded	aux:pass
15	to	to	PART	_	17 recorded	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 recorded	aux:pass
17	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 means	advcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 means	case
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proceeded	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wampum	case
21	wampum	wampum	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 order	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wampum	appos
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 read	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 read	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 read	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 read	aux:pass
29	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 order	acl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 Indians	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Indians	det
32	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	29 read	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 time	case
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 read	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 time	case
36	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 time	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	tribes = tribe			after this		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	tribes = tribe not said here	lesser laws				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset law=Product
3	record	past · passive		all				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	mean	present					of wampum	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	read	could · passive		tribes = tribe	the Indians	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to indian=Recipient

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 121

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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 121