Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 78
It was the custom of chiefs to wear medallions of white wampum shells which were visible at a long distance, particularly in the moonlight.
Who acts: ambush, white wampum shells · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: custom, medallions
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 (ambush, white wampum shells), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chiefs | case |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 custom | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wear | mark |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 custom | acl |
| 9 | medallions | medallion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wear | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shells | case |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shells | amod |
| 12 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shells | compound |
| 13 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 medallions | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 visible | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visible | cop |
| 16 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shells | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 distance | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 distance | amod |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visible | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 moonlight | punct |
| 22 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 25 moonlight | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 moonlight | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 moonlight | det |
| 25 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visible | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ambush | the custom | of chiefs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive | medallions of white wampum shells | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent medallion=Source | |||||
| 3 | is | past | white wampum shells | at a long distance; the moonlight conj; visible property | tree rules |
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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