Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

Brinton adds: “In later days, instead of burning the marks upon the stick, they were painted, the colors as well as the figures having certain conventional meanings.

Who acts: Brinton, figures · What happens: add, burn, paint, have · To what, where: marks, mark, certain conventional meanings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Brinton, figures), 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	Brinton	Brinton	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 adds	nsubj
2	adds	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 adds	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 adds	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burning	punct
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 burning	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 adds	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marks	det
13	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burning	obj
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 painted	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 painted	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 painted	aux:pass
20	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 adds	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 colors	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 colors	det
23	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 painted	obl
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	28 figures	cc
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	as	as	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 figures	det
28	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 painted	conj
29	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 figures	acl
30	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 meanings	amod
31	conventional	conventional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 meanings	amod
32	meanings	meaning	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 having	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 adds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Brinton		day		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	burn in a quote	gerund	Brinton not said here	the marks		upon the stick	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mark=Theme
3	paint in a quote	past · passive		mark		the colors obl; the figures conj	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	have in a quote	gerund	the figures not said here	certain conventional meanings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient

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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

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Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 96