Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 23
In later times it was customary to fire a gun at this point as a signal that the bride was in the hall, whereupon the groom’s procession entered the hall in the same manner, when a second gun was fired.
Who acts: party, signal, procession, groom · What happens: be, enter, fire, proceed · To what, where: customary, hall, same manner, second gun
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 (party, signal, procession, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 customary | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 customary | cop |
| 6 | customary | customary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fire | mark |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 customary | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gun | det |
| 10 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 point | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 point | det |
| 13 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gun | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 signal | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 signal | det |
| 16 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 point | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hall | nsubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bride | det |
| 19 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hall | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hall | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hall | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hall | det |
| 23 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 signal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 entered | punct |
| 25 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 entered | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 groom | det |
| 27 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 procession | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 groom | case |
| 29 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 entered | nsubj |
| 30 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hall | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hall | det |
| 32 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 entered | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 manner | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 manner | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 manner | amod |
| 36 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 entered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fired | punct |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 43 fired | mark |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 gun | det |
| 40 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 gun | amod |
| 41 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fired | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 fired | aux:pass |
| 43 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 entered | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | party | customary | fire acl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a signal | the hall | the bride nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enter | past | the groom's procession | the hall | the same manner | whereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||
| 4 | fire | past · passive | a second gun | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | proceed | the groom | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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