Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 19, sentence 99
Every tribe, therefore, sent two or more of their cleverest men as representatives to the great council.
What happens: send · To what, where: tribe, great council
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: 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 tribe | det |
| 2 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tribe | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 sent | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 therefore | punct |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sent | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 two | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 two | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 representatives | case |
| 15 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sent | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 council | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 council | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 council | amod |
| 19 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | every tribe | the great council | as representatives; two of tribes's cleverest men obj; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme to council=Destination |
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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