Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 38
When he had finished his chant the other Indians sang their welcoming song in reply.
Who acts: herald, other Indians, Indians · What happens: finish, sing, chant · To what, where: chant, welcoming song, reply
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 (herald, other Indians, Indians), 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 | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 sang | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chant | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Indians | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Indians | amod |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 sang | nsubj |
| 10 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 song | nmod:poss |
| 12 | welcoming | welcoming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 song | amod |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 reply | case |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sang | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | herald | herald's chant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chant=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | the other Indians | Indians's welcoming song | reply | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | chant | herald | nom chant «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing | Indians = indian | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78673/20/38/