Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 77
On this occasion, however, they were seen by a Passamaquoddy brave whose people lay in ambush for them.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, lay · To what, where: ceremonies, occasion, ambush
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 (people), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasion | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 occasion | det |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 occasion | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lay | det |
| 12 | Passamaquoddy | Passamaquoddy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brave | compound |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lay | advcl |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 people | nmod:poss |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ambush | case |
| 18 | ambush | ambush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | ceremonies = ceremony | this occasion | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lay | present | people | ambush | for ceremonies = ceremony | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
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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