Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 122
Every feast, every ceremony, therefore, has its own ritual in the wampum; such as the burial and mourning rites after the death of a chief, the installation of a chief, marriage, etc. There were also salutation and visiting wampum.
Who acts: feast, etc., chief · What happens: have, be, visit, die, install · To what, where: own ritual, wampum, chief
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 (feast, etc., 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 feast | det |
| 2 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceremony | punct |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 ceremony | det |
| 5 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feast | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 feast | punct |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 has | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 therefore | punct |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ritual | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ritual | amod |
| 12 | ritual | ritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wampum | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wampum | det |
| 15 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ritual | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 burial | punct |
| 17 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 burial | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 such | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 burial | det |
| 20 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ritual | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rites | cc |
| 22 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rites | compound |
| 23 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burial | conj |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 death | det |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rites | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chief | det |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 death | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 installation | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 installation | det |
| 32 | installation | installation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ritual | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 chief | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 chief | det |
| 35 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 installation | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 marriage | punct |
| 37 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chief | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 were | punct |
| 39 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 41 were | nsubj |
| 40 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 were | expl |
| 41 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ritual | parataxis |
| 42 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 salutation | advmod |
| 43 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 were | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 wampum | cc |
| 45 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 wampum | amod |
| 46 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 salutation | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every feast and every ceremony | wampum's own ritual and the burial and mourning rites after the death of a chief and the installation of a chief and marriage | the wampum | therefore property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ritual=Patient | ||
| 2 | be | past | etc. | there | salutation and visiting wampum nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | gerund | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | die | a chief | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | install | a chief and marriage | nom installation «act 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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