Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 89
When the delegates from the other tribes, who had been appointed to elect the chief, had arrived and the salutation and welcome ceremonies had been performed, an assembly was called to elect the chief.
Who acts: delegates · What happens: appoint, elect, arrive, perform, call · To what, where: other tribes, chief, salutation, assembly · 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 (delegates), 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 | _ | 19 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 delegates | det |
| 3 | delegates | delegate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tribes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tribes | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tribes | amod |
| 7 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 delegates | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appointed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appointed | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 appointed | aux:pass |
| 12 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 elect | mark |
| 14 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appointed | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 elect | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 delegates | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrived | aux |
| 19 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 performed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 salutation | det |
| 22 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ceremonies | cc |
| 24 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ceremonies | amod |
| 25 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 salutation | conj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 performed | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 performed | aux:pass |
| 28 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 arrived | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 called | punct |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 assembly | det |
| 31 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 called | aux:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 arrived | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 elect | mark |
| 35 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 called | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 chief | det |
| 37 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 elect | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · perfect · passive | the other tribes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | elect | to-infinitive | the chief | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past · perfect | the delegates from the other tribes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perform | past · perfect · passive | the salutation and welcome ceremonies | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | a assembly | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | elect | to-infinitive | the chief | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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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