Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 88
When they reached home, however, and the embassies from the other _Wabanaki_ tribes had also returned, the people of the bereaved tribe were summoned to assemble before the messengers, who informed them of the success of their mission.
Who acts: hʾdimʾk, Wabanaki, messengers · What happens: reach, return, summon, assemble, inform · To what, where: embassies, tribes, Wabanaki, hʾdimʾk
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 (hʾdimʾk, Wabanaki, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embassies | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 embassies | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 embassies | det |
| 10 | embassies | embassy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 embassies | nmod |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Wabanaki | punct |
| 15 | Wabanaki | Wabanaki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 tribes | punct |
| 17 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 returned | aux |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 returned | advmod |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Wabanaki | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 summoned | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 tribe | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tribe | det |
| 26 | bereaved | bereaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tribe | amod |
| 27 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 people | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 summoned | aux:pass |
| 29 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 embassies | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 assemble | mark |
| 31 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 summoned | xcomp |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 messengers | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 messengers | det |
| 34 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 assemble | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 informed | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 informed | nsubj |
| 37 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 messengers | acl:relcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 informed | iobj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 success | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 success | det |
| 41 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 informed | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 mission | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mission | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 success | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | hʾdimʾk | the embassies from the other | home, however property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | return | past · perfect · passive | Wabanaki not said here | tribes | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | summon | past · passive | Wabanaki | the people of the bereaved tribe nsubj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | assemble | to-infinitive | before the messengers | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | inform speech: other | past | the messengers | hʾdimʾk | of the success of hʾdimʾk's mission | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of success=Topic |
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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