Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 49
This meant that the messengers were not to be allowed to depart so soon.
Who acts: This, messengers · What happens: mean, not allow, depart · To what, where: messengers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 meant | nsubj |
| 2 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 allowed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 messengers | det |
| 5 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 allowed | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 allowed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | aux:pass |
| 10 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 meant | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 depart | mark |
| 12 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 depart | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | This | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not allow not said to happen | past · passive | the messengers | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | the messengers not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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