Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 108
It was understood that the winner of the game was entitled to all the valuables hung on this pole.
What happens: understand, entitle, hang · To what, where: pole, winner, valuables
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | aux:pass |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 entitled | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 winner | det |
| 6 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entitled | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 game | det |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 winner | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entitled | aux:pass |
| 11 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 understood | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 valuables | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 valuables | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 valuables | det |
| 15 | valuables | valuable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entitled | obl |
| 16 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 valuables | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 pole | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 pole | det |
| 19 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hung | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past · passive | pole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | entitle | past · passive | the winner of the game | to all valuables | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | all valuables not said here | this pole | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pole=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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