Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 126
The usual wedding ceremonies were then held, viz., a public feast, followed by dancing and singing, which always lasted at least a week.
What happens: hold, follow, dance, sing, last · To what, where: usual wedding ceremonies, public feast
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremonies | det |
| 2 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ceremonies | amod |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ceremonies | compound |
| 4 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 held | aux:pass |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 held | advmod |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 viz | punct |
| 9 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 feast | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 feast | det |
| 13 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 feast | amod |
| 14 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 followed | punct |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 feast | acl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 dancing | mark |
| 18 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 followed | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 singing | cc |
| 20 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 dancing | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lasted | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 lasted | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 lasted | advmod |
| 24 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 singing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 least | case |
| 26 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 week | nmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 week | det |
| 28 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | the usual wedding ceremonies | then | a public feast obl; viz obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme viz=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | a public feast not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | last | past | week | which nsubj; always property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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