Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 103
This signified that it was their duty to defend and guard their chief and that they should be obliged to spill their blood for him, in case of need and in defence of the tribe.
Who acts: This, pole · What happens: signify, be, defend, guard, oblige, spill · To what, where: duty, chief, geptins, blood, case, tribe
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 signified | nsubj |
| 2 | signified | signify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 duty | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 duty | cop |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 duty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 signified | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 defend | mark |
| 9 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 signified | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 guard | cc |
| 11 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 defend | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chief | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guard | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 obliged | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 obliged | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 signified | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 spill | mark |
| 21 | spill | spill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 blood | nmod:poss |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spill | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spill | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 case | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 case | case |
| 28 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spill | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 need | case |
| 30 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 case | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 defence | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 defence | case |
| 33 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 need | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 tribe | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tribe | det |
| 36 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 defence | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 signified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | signify | past | This | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | pole | geptins's duty | geptins = geptin nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | defend | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | guard | infinitive | This not said here | geptins's chief | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | oblige | should · passive | geptins = geptin | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | spill | to-infinitive | geptins's blood | case of need and defence of the tribe | for CHIEF | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | |||
| 7 | defend | the tribe | nom defence «process transitive»: of=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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