Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 57

To the accompaniment of his drum he sang his _kʾtumasoointawagunul_ or dance songs, which was the signal for a general dance, followed by another feast.

Who acts: CHIEF, dance songs · What happens: sing, be, follow, accompany · To what, where: kʾtumasoointawagunul _, accompaniment, signal, dance songs, drum

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, dance songs), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 accompaniment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 accompaniment	det
3	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 drum	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drum	nmod:poss
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accompaniment	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 _	nmod:poss
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 _	punct
11	kʾtumasoointawagunul	kʾtumasoointawagunul	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 _	amod
12	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 songs	cc
14	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 songs	compound
15	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 _	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 signal	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 signal	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 signal	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 signal	det
20	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 songs	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 dance	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 dance	det
23	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dance	amod
24	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 signal	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
26	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 songs	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 feast	case
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 feast	det
29	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 followed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	CHIEF	CHIEF's kʾtumasoointawagunul _ or dance songs and the signal	the accompaniment of CHIEF's drum		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent _=Topic to accompaniment=Recipient
2	is a	past	dance songs and the signal	the signal		for a general dance	tree rules
3	follow	participle		dance songs and the signal not said here		by another feast	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by feast=Location
4	accompany			CHIEF's drum			nom accompaniment «event transitive»: of=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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 57