Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 91
A suitable person, a member of the bereaved tribe, was chosen by acclamation for the office of chief.
Who acts: acclamation · What happens: choose · To what, where: suitable person
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 (acclamation), 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 person | det |
| 2 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 member | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 member | det |
| 6 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 person | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tribe | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribe | det |
| 9 | bereaved | bereaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tribe | amod |
| 10 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 member | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chosen | aux:pass |
| 13 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 acclamation | case |
| 15 | acclamation | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 office | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 office | det |
| 18 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chosen | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chief | case |
| 20 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 office | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | acclamation | a suitable person | for the office of chief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for office=Beneficiary |
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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