Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 2, sentence 98
Among the more cultured tribes the sticks were eventually replaced by wooden tablets, on which the symbols were engraved with a sharp instrument, such as a flint or knife.
Who acts: wooden tablets · What happens: culture, replace, engrave · To what, where: sticks, symbols
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 (wooden tablets), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 5 tribes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tribes | det |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 cultured | advmod |
| 4 | cultured | culture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tribes | amod |
| 5 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 replaced | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sticks | det |
| 7 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replaced | aux:pass |
| 9 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 10 replaced | advmod |
| 10 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tablets | case |
| 12 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tablets | amod |
| 13 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 replaced | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 engraved | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 engraved | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 symbols | det |
| 18 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 engraved | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 engraved | aux:pass |
| 20 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replaced | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 instrument | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 instrument | det |
| 23 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 instrument | amod |
| 24 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 engraved | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flint | punct |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 29 flint | case |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 such | fixed |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flint | det |
| 29 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 instrument | appos |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 knife | cc |
| 31 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flint | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | culture | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | replace | past · passive | wooden tablets | the sticks | among the cultured tribes; eventually property | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | engrave | past · passive | the symbols | with a sharp instrument; which obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |
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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