Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 106
After the tribal officers had been appointed, the greatest festivities were carried on; during the day they had canoe races, foot races and ball-playing, and during the night, feasting and dancing.
Who acts: festivities · What happens: appoint, carry on, have, play · To what, where: tribal officers, greatest festivities, canoe races
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 (festivities), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 appointed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 officers | det |
| 3 | tribal | tribal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 officers | amod |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appointed | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 appointed | aux:pass |
| 7 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 festivities | det |
| 10 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 festivities | amod |
| 11 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 appointed | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appointed | conj |
| 21 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 races | compound |
| 22 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 races | punct |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 races | compound |
| 25 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 races | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 playing | cc |
| 27 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 playing | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ball | punct |
| 29 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 races | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 night | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 night | cc |
| 32 | during | during | ADP | _ | 34 night | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appointed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 feasting | punct |
| 36 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 night | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dancing | cc |
| 38 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feasting | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · perfect · passive | the tribal officers | night | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry on | past · passive | the greatest festivities | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | festivities = festivity | canoe races and foot races | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | |||
| 4 | play | gerund | festivities = festivity not said here | ball compound | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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