Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 24
The _geptins_ of the tribe and one of the friends of the bride then conducted the girl to the bridegroom to dance with him.
Who acts: geptins · What happens: conduct, dance · To what, where: girl, bridegroom
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 (geptins), 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 | 3 geptins | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 geptins | punct |
| 3 | geptins | geptin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 conducted | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 tribe | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tribe | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tribe | det |
| 7 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 geptins | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 tribe | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friends | det |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bride | det |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friends | nmod |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 conducted | advmod |
| 17 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conducted | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bridegroom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bridegroom | det |
| 22 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conducted | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dance | mark |
| 24 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 conducted | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dance | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | the geptins of the tribe | the girl | the bridegroom | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to bridegroom=Destination | ||
| 2 | dance | to-infinitive | the geptins of the tribe not said here | with bridegroom | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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