Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 45
The messengers, arising once more, thanked the chief for his kindness and appointed a day to return to their own people.
Who acts: messengers · What happens: arise, thank, appoint, return · To what, where: chief
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 messengers | det |
| 2 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arising | punct |
| 4 | arising | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 messengers | acl |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 arising | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 messengers | punct |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 kindness | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appointed | cc |
| 15 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thanked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appointed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 appointed | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 people | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 return | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | gerund | the messengers not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the messengers | the chief | for CHIEF's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent chief=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 3 | appoint | past | the messengers not said here | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | the messengers not said here | to messengers's own people result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result |
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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