Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 98
The officers of the new chief (_geptins_) were still to be chosen.
What happens: choose · To what, where: officers
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: 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 | 2 officers | det |
| 2 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chief | amod |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 officers | nmod |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 geptins | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 geptins | punct |
| 9 | geptins | geptin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 chief | appos |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 geptins | punct |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 geptins | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chosen | aux:pass |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 chosen | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 chosen | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 chosen | aux:pass |
| 16 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | the officers of the new chief | still | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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