Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 66
The Micmac chief being a lover of fair play ordered his men to land on an island to await the coming of a messenger.
Who acts: Micmac chief, lover · What happens: be, order, land, await, come · To what, where: lover, men, island
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Micmac chief, lover), 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 | 6 lover | det |
| 2 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lover | nsubj |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lover | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lover | det |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 play | case |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 play | amod |
| 9 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lover | nmod |
| 10 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ordered | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 land | mark |
| 14 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ordered | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 land | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 await | mark |
| 19 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 land | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 coming | det |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 await | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 messenger | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 messenger | det |
| 24 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coming | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | Micmac chief | the lover | of fair play | tree rules | |||
| 2 | order | past | the lover | lover's men | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | land not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lover not said here | a island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination | ||||
| 4 | await | to-infinitive | the lover not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come | gerund | the lover not said here | of a messenger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of messenger=Initial_Location |
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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