Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 34

Accordingly, after the council of the leading men had assembled, four or six canoes were dispatched to the Micmac, Penobscot and Maliseet tribes if a Passamaquoddy chief had died.

Who acts: Passamaquoddy chief · What happens: lead, assemble, dispatch, die · To what, where: four canoes, Micmac

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 (Passamaquoddy 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	11 assembled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Accordingly	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 council	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 council	det
5	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 assembled	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 men	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 men	amod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 council	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 assembled	aux
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 dispatched	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 assembled	punct
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 canoes	nummod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 six	cc
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 four	conj
16	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dispatched	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dispatched	aux:pass
18	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 Micmac	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Micmac	det
21	Micmac	Micmac	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 dispatched	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Penobscot	punct
23	Penobscot	Penobscot	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Micmac	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Maliseet	cc
25	Maliseet	Maliseet	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Micmac	conj
26	tribes	tribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Micmac	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 died	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 chief	det
29	Passamaquoddy	Passamaquoddy	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 chief	compound
30	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 died	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 died	aux
32	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 dispatched	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 dispatched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lead	gerund						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	assemble	past · perfect				after the council of the leading men	accordingly property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dispatch	past · passive		four canoes	the Micmac and Penobscot and Maliseet and tribes			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to micmac=Destination
4	die a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	a Passamaquoddy chief					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 34