Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 16
The groom then assembled a company of his friends, old and young men, and went with them to the bride’s wigwam to salute her in the same manner.
Who acts: groom · What happens: assemble, go, salute · To what, where: company, wigwam, bride, same manner
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 (groom), 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 groom | det |
| 2 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 assembled | advmod |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 company | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 young | cc |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 old | conj |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 assembled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assembled | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 wigwam | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bride | det |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 bride | case |
| 24 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 salute | mark |
| 26 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 salute | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 manner | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 manner | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 manner | amod |
| 31 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 salute | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | the groom | a company of groom's friends | then | old men obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent company=Beneficiary man=Product | ||
| 2 | go | past | the groom not said here | the bride's wigwam | with friends = friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | salute | to-infinitive | the groom not said here | bride | the same manner | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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