Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 97
A wife of one of the other chiefs then placed a new deer-skin or bear-skin on the shoulders of the new chief as a symbol of his authority, after which the dance continued the whole night.
Who acts: wife, dance · What happens: place, continue · To what, where: new deer skin, shoulders
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 (wife, dance), 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 | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 wife | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chiefs | amod |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 placed | advmod |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 skin | det |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 skin | amod |
| 13 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 deer | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 skin | cc |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skin | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 19 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shoulders | det |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 placed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 chief | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chief | det |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chief | amod |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shoulders | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 symbol | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 symbol | det |
| 29 | symbol | symbol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 authority | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 authority | nmod:poss |
| 32 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 symbol | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 continued | punct |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 continued | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dance | det |
| 37 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 continued | nsubj |
| 38 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 placed | parataxis |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 night | det |
| 40 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 night | amod |
| 41 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | a wife of one of the other chiefs | a new deer skin or bear skin | the shoulders of the new chief | then | as a symbol of CHIEF's authority | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |
| 2 | continue | past | the dance | night | which obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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