Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 96
It was many months before the messengers reached the farthest tribes.
Who acts: Wabanaki, many months · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: many months, farthest 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 (Wabanaki, many months), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 months | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 months | cop |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 months | amod |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 messengers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 messengers | det |
| 7 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 months | nmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tribes | det |
| 10 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 tribes | amod |
| 11 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wabanaki | many months | before the messengers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | past | many months | the farthest tribes | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tribe=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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