Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 20
Every one understood this, which was the signal for the merrymakers to approach and fall to.
Who acts: one, merrymakers · What happens: understand, be, approach, fall · To what, where: this, signal
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 (one, merrymakers), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 understood | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 signal | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 signal | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 signal | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 signal | det |
| 9 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 approach | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 merrymakers | det |
| 12 | merrymakers | merrymaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 approach | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 approach | mark |
| 14 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 signal | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fall | cc |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 approach | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fall | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | every one | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the signal | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | approach | to-infinitive | the merrymakers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | the merrymakers not said here | vn occur-48.3 «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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