Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 15
She then returned to her father’s house, where she seated herself with her following of old women and girls.
Who acts: CEREMONY · What happens: return, seat, follow · To what, where: CEREMONY
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CEREMONY), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seated | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 seated | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seated | nsubj |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 seated | obj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 following | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 following | nmod:poss |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 seated | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 women | case |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 women | amod |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 following | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 girls | cc |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 women | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | CEREMONY | then | to CEREMONY's father's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 2 | seat | past | CEREMONY | CEREMONY | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | CEREMONY not said here | of old women and girls; CEREMONY nmod:poss | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of woman=Trajectory |
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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