Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 101
The flag-pole, which was the symbol of the chief, was first raised.
Who acts: flag pole · What happens: be, raise · To what, where: symbol, flag pole
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 (flag pole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pole | det |
| 2 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pole | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 flag | punct |
| 4 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 symbol | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 symbol | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 symbol | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 symbol | det |
| 9 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pole | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 symbol | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pole | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raised | aux:pass |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 raised | advmod |
| 16 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the flag pole | the symbol | of the chief | tree rules | |||
| 2 | raise | past · passive | the flag pole | first property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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