Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 35
[71] These canoes bore each a little flag in the bow as a sign that the mission on which the messengers came was important.
Who acts: canoes, messengers, mission · What happens: bear, come, be · To what, where: 71, mission, sign
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 (canoes, messengers, mission), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
| 2 | 71 | 71 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 bore | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 71 | punct |
| 4 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 canoes | det |
| 5 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bore | nsubj |
| 6 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 flag | det |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flag | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flag | amod |
| 10 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bow | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bow | det |
| 13 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flag | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sign | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sign | det |
| 16 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bore | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 important | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mission | det |
| 19 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 important | nsubj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 came | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 messengers | det |
| 23 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mission | acl:relcl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 important | cop |
| 26 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sign | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | this canoes | 71 | as a sign; each little flag obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient | |||
| 2 | come | past | the messengers | the mission | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the mission | a sign not said here | important property | tree rules |
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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