Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
I am informed that a few members of the race linger on at New Westfield, near Ottawa, Kansas, most of whom are under the charge of the Moravian Church.
Who acts: few members, most · What happens: inform, linger, be · To what, where: I, New Westfield, charge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few members, most), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 informed | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | aux:pass |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 linger | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 members | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 members | amod |
| 7 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 linger | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 race | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 members | nmod |
| 11 | linger | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | ccomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Westfield | case |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Westfield | case |
| 14 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Westfield | amod |
| 15 | Westfield | Westfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 linger | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ottawa | punct |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 Ottawa | case |
| 18 | Ottawa | Ottawa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Westfield | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Kansas | punct |
| 20 | Kansas | Kansas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Westfield | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 charge | punct |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 charge | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 whom | case |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 most | nmod |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 charge | cop |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 charge | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 charge | det |
| 28 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 informed | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Church | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Church | det |
| 31 | Moravian | Moravian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Church | compound |
| 32 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 charge | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | present · passive | I | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | linger | present | a few members of the race | New Westfield near Ottawa and Kansas | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on westfield=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | most of the charge | the charge | of the Moravian Church | tree rules |
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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