Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 93
The installing chief then addressed the people, telling them that another “eldest boy” had been chosen, to whom they owed implicit obedience.
Who acts: installing chief, people · What happens: install, address, tell, choose, owe · To what, where: people, eldest boy, implicit obedience · 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 (installing chief, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | installing | install | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addressed | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 addressed | advmod |
| 5 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 addressed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 addressed | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 telling | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 chosen | mark |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 boy | det |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 14 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chosen | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 chosen | aux:pass |
| 19 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 telling | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whom | punct |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 addressed | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 owed | nsubj |
| 24 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 25 | implicit | implicit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 obedience | amod |
| 26 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | install | gerund | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | address | past | the installing chief | the people | then | whom obl | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Destination | ||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the installing chief not said here | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | choose | past · perfect · passive | another eldest boy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | owe | past | people | implicit obedience | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent obedience=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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