Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 100
Their duties, which were much more severe, were told them by the installing chief.
Who acts: duties, installing chief · What happens: be, tell, install · To what, where: duties, geptins · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (duties, installing chief), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 duties | nmod:poss |
| 2 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 severe | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 severe | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 severe | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 severe | advmod |
| 8 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 duties | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 duties | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 chief | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 15 | installing | install | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 chief | amod |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | geptins's duties | severe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the installing chief | geptins's duties | geptins = geptin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient they=Topic | |||
| 3 | install | gerund | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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