Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 102

The _geptins_ stood around it, each with a brush in his hand, with which they were instructed to brush off any particle of dust that might come upon it.

Who acts: geptins, dust · What happens: stand, instruct, brush off, come · To what, where: each, pole, geptins, particle

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 (geptins, dust), 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	3 geptins	det
2	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 geptins	punct
3	geptins	geptin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 each	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 stood	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 brush	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 brush	det
12	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 each	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 instructed	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 instructed	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 instructed	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 instructed	aux:pass
21	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stood	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 brush	mark
23	brush	brush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 instructed	xcomp
24	off	off	ADP	_	23 brush	compound:prt
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 particle	det
26	particle	particle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brush	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 dust	case
28	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 particle	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 dust	acl:relcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the geptins	each with a brush	pole	in CHIEF's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location
2	instruct speech: other	past · passive		geptins = geptin		which obl	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	brush off	to-infinitive		any particle of dust			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent particle=Theme
4	come	might	dust		pole		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location

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 20, sentence 102

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 102