Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 89
It was customary for these keepers of tribal history from time to time to instruct the younger members of their clan in the annals of the people.
Who acts: version · What happens: be, instruct · To what, where: customary, younger members
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 (version), 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 | 3 customary | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 customary | cop |
| 3 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 keepers | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 keepers | det |
| 6 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 customary | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 history | case |
| 8 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 history | amod |
| 9 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keepers | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 history | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 instruct | mark |
| 15 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 time | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 members | det |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 members | amod |
| 18 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 instruct | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clan | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 clan | nmod:poss |
| 21 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 members | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 annals | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 annals | det |
| 24 | annals | annal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clan | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 people | det |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 annals | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 customary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | version | customary | for this keepers of tribal history from time to time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | to-infinitive | version not said here | the younger members of members's clan in the annals of the people | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent member=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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