Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 31
When the chief of a tribe died, his flag-pole was cut down and burnt, and his war-like appurtenances, bows and arrows, tomahawk and flag, were buried with him.
Who acts: chief · What happens: die, cut down, bury · To what, where: like appurtenances, flag pole
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 (chief), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 died | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tribe | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tribe | det |
| 6 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | nmod |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pole | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 flag | punct |
| 12 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | aux:pass |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 died | parataxis |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 cut | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burnt | cc |
| 17 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cut | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appurtenances | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appurtenances | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 appurtenances | nmod:poss |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 like | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 war | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 appurtenances | amod |
| 24 | appurtenances | appurtenance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 died | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bows | punct |
| 26 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 appurtenances | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 arrows | cc |
| 28 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 appurtenances | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tomahawk | punct |
| 30 | tomahawk | tomahawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appurtenances | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 flag | cc |
| 32 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tomahawk | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 buried | punct |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 buried | aux:pass |
| 35 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 died | advcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 buried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the chief of a tribe | CHIEF's like appurtenances and bows and arrows and tomahawk and flag | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | cut down | past · passive | CHIEF's flag pole | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | bury | past · passive | the chief of a tribe not said here | with CHIEF | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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