Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 95
The main duties of a chief were to act as arbiter in all matters of dispute, and to act as commander-in-chief in case of war, being ready to sacrifice himself for the people’s good if need were.
Who acts: main duties, dispute · What happens: act, be, sacrifice, need, matter · To what, where: matters, CHIEF
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 (main duties, dispute), 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 duties | det |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duties | amod |
| 3 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 act | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duties | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 act | aux |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 act | mark |
| 9 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 arbiter | case |
| 11 | arbiter | arbiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 act | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 matters | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 matters | det |
| 14 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 act | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dispute | case |
| 16 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 matters | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 act | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 act | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 act | mark |
| 20 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 act | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 chief | case |
| 22 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chief | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 chief | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 chief | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 act | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 case | case |
| 28 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 chief | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 war | case |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 case | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ready | punct |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 ready | cop |
| 33 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 act | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sacrifice | mark |
| 35 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ready | xcomp |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 sacrifice | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 good | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 people | det |
| 39 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 good | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 people | case |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sacrifice | obl |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 need | mark |
| 43 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 sacrifice | advcl |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 ready | cop |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past | the main duties of a chief | all matters of dispute | as arbiter | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as arbiter=Attribute | |||
| 2 | act | to-infinitive | as chief commander in case of war | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as chief=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | CHIEF | for the people's good | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | matter | dispute | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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