Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 67
The other chief sent word that on the following day ‘the boys would come out to play.’
Who acts: sent word · What happens: send, follow, come out, play · To what, where: sent word
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 (sent word), 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 | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 come | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 word | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 play | mark |
| 18 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come out | would | sent word the other chief | day | the boys nsubj; out property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | sent word the other chief not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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