Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 36
On the arrival of the messengers at their destination, the chief of the tribe to which they came called all his people, children, women and men, to meet the approaching boats.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: call, meet, arrive · To what, where: chief, arrival, approaching boats · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (messengers), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 arrival | det |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 messengers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 messengers | det |
| 6 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrival | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 destination | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 destination | nmod:poss |
| 9 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 messengers | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrival | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tribe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tribe | det |
| 15 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 came | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 people | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 people | nmod:poss |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 children | punct |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 people | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 women | punct |
| 27 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 people | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 men | cc |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 women | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 meet | punct |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 meet | mark |
| 32 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 called | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boats | det |
| 34 | approaching | approaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 boats | compound |
| 35 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 meet | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the chief of the tribe | the arrival of the messengers at messengers's destination | CHIEF's people and children and women and men xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the approaching boats | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | arrive | the messengers at messengers's destination | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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