Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 40
These Algonkin clans themselves, however, seem to have been politically interdependent, as one clan could not elect a chief without the consent of all the others.
Who acts: Algonkin clans, one clan · What happens: seem, be, not elect, consent · To what, where: chief, others
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 (Algonkin clans, one clan), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 clans | det |
| 2 | Algonkin | Algonkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 clans | compound |
| 3 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seem | nsubj |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 clans | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 clans | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 seem | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 interdependent | mark |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 interdependent | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 interdependent | cop |
| 12 | politically | politically | ADV | _ | 13 interdependent | advmod |
| 13 | interdependent | interdependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 elect | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 elect | mark |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 clan | nummod |
| 17 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elect | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 elect | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 elect | advmod |
| 20 | elect | elect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seem | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elect | obj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 consent | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 consent | det |
| 25 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 elect | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 others | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 consent | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | this Algonkin clans clans | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive · perfect | this Algonkin clans clans not said here | interdependent, politically property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not elect | could | one clan | a chief | without the consent of all others | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | |||
| 4 | consent | all others | nom consent «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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