Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 40
The visiting Indians were then taken to a special wigwam allotted to their use over which a flag was set.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: take, allot, set, use · To what, where: visiting, special wigwam, use, flag
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), 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 visiting | det |
| 2 | visiting | visiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 visiting | flat |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 taken | advmod |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wigwam | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wigwam | det |
| 9 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wigwam | amod |
| 10 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 11 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wigwam | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 use | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 use | nmod:poss |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allotted | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 set | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flag | det |
| 18 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 set | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | aux:pass |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 use | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the visiting | a special wigwam | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to wigwam=Destination | |||
| 2 | allot | participle | a special wigwam not said here | to Indians's use goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to use=Goal | ||||
| 3 | set | past · passive | a flag | Indians's use | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | use | Indians = indian | nom use «act transitive»: 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.
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