Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
The Micmac chief, deceived by this stratagem and being afraid, summoned his braves to council, and setting forth the disasters which had been caused by the long war advised a treaty of peace.
Who acts: Micmac chief, long war, disasters · What happens: deceive, be, summon, set, cause, advise · To what, where: Micmac chief, braves, disasters, treaty
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, long war, disasters), 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 | Micmac | Micmac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deceived | punct |
| 5 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chief | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 stratagem | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stratagem | det |
| 8 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deceived | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | cc |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 afraid | cop |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deceived | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chief | punct |
| 13 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 braves | nmod:poss |
| 15 | braves | brave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 summoned | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 council | case |
| 17 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 summoned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 setting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 setting | cc |
| 20 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 summoned | advcl |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 setting | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 disasters | det |
| 23 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 advised | nsubj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 caused | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 caused | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 caused | aux:pass |
| 27 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 disasters | acl:relcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 war | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 war | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 war | amod |
| 31 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 caused | obl |
| 32 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 setting | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 treaty | det |
| 34 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 advised | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 peace | case |
| 36 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 treaty | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | participle | the Micmac chief not said here | by this stratagem | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | summon | past | the Micmac chief | man's braves | to council | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Recipient | |||
| 4 | set | gerund | the Micmac chief not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cause | past · perfect · passive | the long war | the disasters | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | advise speech: other | past | the disasters | a treaty of peace | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent treaty=Recipient |
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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