Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 53
Men, women and children immediately came to the hall with their birch-bark dishes and sat about the game in a circle, while four or five men with long-handled dishes distributed the food, of which every person had a share.
Who acts: Men, four men, person · What happens: come, sit, handle, distribute, have · To what, where: hall, circle, food, share
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 (Men, four men, person), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Men | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 children | cc |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Men | conj |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 dishes | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dishes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bark | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 birch | punct |
| 15 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dishes | compound |
| 16 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 game | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 game | det |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 circle | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 circle | det |
| 24 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 distributed | punct |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 distributed | mark |
| 27 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 men | nummod |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 five | cc |
| 29 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 four | conj |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 distributed | nsubj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 dishes | case |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 handled | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 long | punct |
| 34 | handled | handle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dishes | amod |
| 35 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 men | nmod |
| 36 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sat | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 food | det |
| 38 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 distributed | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 had | punct |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 had | obl |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 person | det |
| 43 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 distributed | conj |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 share | det |
| 46 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Men and women and children | the hall | with men's bark dishes; immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Men and women and children not said here | a circle | about the game | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about game=Location | |||
| 3 | handle | participle | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | distribute | past | four men with handled dishes | the food | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | every person | a share | which obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=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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