Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 28
This final ceremony was called _natboonan_, taking or carrying the bed.
What happens: call, take, carry · To what, where: final ceremony, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ceremony | det |
| 2 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ceremony | amod |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 natboonan | punct |
| 7 | natboonan | natboonan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 natboonan | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 called | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 carrying | cc |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 taking | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | this final ceremony | natboonan xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the bed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=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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