Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 42
On the next day the messengers sent to the chief desiring to see all the tribe assembled in a _gwandowanek_ or dance hall.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: send, desire, see, assemble, dance · To what, where: chief, tribe, gwandowanek, hall
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 | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 messengers | det |
| 6 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 11 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sent | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 desiring | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 tribe | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tribe | det |
| 16 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 17 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tribe | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 gwandowanek | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gwandowanek | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 gwandowanek | punct |
| 21 | gwandowanek | gwandowanek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 assembled | obl |
| 22 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 dance | cc |
| 24 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | conj |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 dance | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the messengers | the chief | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to chief=Destination | |||
| 2 | desire | gerund | the messengers not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the messengers not said here | all tribe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tribe=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | assemble | participle | all tribe not said here | a gwandowanek | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dance | infinitive | the messengers not said here | hall | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hall=Theme |
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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