Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 51
A great hunt was ordered by the chief and the game brought to the meeting-hall and cooked there.
Who acts: chief, game · What happens: order, bring, cook · To what, where: great hunt, meeting 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 (chief, game), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunt | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunt | amod |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ordered | aux:pass |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ordered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hall | det |
| 15 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hall | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 meeting | punct |
| 17 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cooked | cc |
| 19 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ordered | conj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 cooked | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · passive | the chief | a great hunt | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the game | the meeting hall | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cook | participle | the chief not said here | there | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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