Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 32
The Indians mourned for him one year, after which the _Pwutwusimwuk_ or leading men were summoned by the tribe to elect a new chief.
Who acts: Indians, tribe · What happens: mourn, lead, summon, elect · To what, where: Pwutwusimwuk, new chief
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 (Indians, tribe), 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 | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 mourned | nsubj |
| 3 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mourned | obl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 year | nummod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mourned | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 summoned | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 summoned | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Pwutwusimwuk | det |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pwutwusimwuk | punct |
| 13 | Pwutwusimwuk | Pwutwusimwuk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 summoned | nsubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Pwutwusimwuk | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 16 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Pwutwusimwuk | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 summoned | aux:pass |
| 19 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mourned | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 tribe | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tribe | det |
| 22 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 summoned | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 elect | mark |
| 24 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 summoned | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chief | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 chief | amod |
| 27 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 elect | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the Indians | year | for CHIEF | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 3 | summon | past · passive | the tribe | the Pwutwusimwuk or leading men | which obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | elect | to-infinitive | the tribe not said here | a new chief | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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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