Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 96
After this ceremony they marched to the hall, where another dance took place, the new chief singing and beating the drum.
Who acts: duties, dance, new chief · What happens: march, take, sing, beat · To what, where: place, drum
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 (duties, dance, new chief), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 ceremony | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ceremony | det |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marched | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marched | nsubj |
| 5 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hall | det |
| 8 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 took | advmod |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 dance | det |
| 12 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marched | conj |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chief | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chief | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chief | amod |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | appos |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 chief | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beating | cc |
| 21 | beating | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 singing | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drum | det |
| 23 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beating | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | duties = duty | after this ceremony | to the hall result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hall=Result | |||
| 2 | take | past | another dance | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the new chief not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | beat | gerund | the new chief not said here | the drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=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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