Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 41
Here they were greeted informally by the members of the tribe with hand-shaking, etc. The evening of the first day was spent in entertaining the visitors.
Who acts: members · What happens: greet, spend, entertain · To what, where: Indians, etc. evening, visitors
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 (members), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 greeted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 greeted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeted | aux:pass |
| 4 | greeted | greet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | informally | informally | ADV | _ | 4 greeted | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 members | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 members | det |
| 8 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 greeted | obl:agent |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tribe | det |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 members | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 shaking | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shaking | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 hand | punct |
| 15 | shaking | shaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tribe | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 evening | punct |
| 17 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 19 evening | compound |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 spent | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spent | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 spent | aux:pass |
| 25 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 evening | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 entertaining | mark |
| 27 | entertaining | entertain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 spent | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 visitors | det |
| 29 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 entertaining | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past · passive | the members of the tribe with hand shaking | Indians = indian | here | evening | informally property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |
| 2 | spend | past · passive | the etc. evening not said here | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | entertain | gerund | the visitors | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visitor=Experiencer |
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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