Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 8
The Delawares of Indian Territory have quite lost their identity as a tribe of Indians, as they have been incorporated with the Cherokee Nation, by whose chief and council they are governed.
Who acts: chief · What happens: lose, incorporate, govern · To what, where: Delawares
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 (chief), 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 | 2 Delawares | det |
| 2 | Delawares | delaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Territory | case |
| 4 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Territory | amod |
| 5 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Delawares | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 lost | advmod |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 identity | nmod:poss |
| 10 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 tribe | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tribe | det |
| 13 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Indians | case |
| 15 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 tribe | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 incorporated | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 incorporated | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 incorporated | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 incorporated | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 incorporated | aux:pass |
| 21 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lost | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Nation | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Nation | det |
| 24 | Cherokee | Cherokee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Nation | compound |
| 25 | Nation | Nation | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 incorporated | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 chief | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 28 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 29 chief | nmod:poss |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 incorporated | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 council | cc |
| 31 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | conj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 governed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 governed | aux:pass |
| 34 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 chief | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect · passive | the Delawares of Indian Territory | as a tribe of Indians; Delawares's identity obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | incorporate | present · perfect · passive | chief and council | Delawares = delaware | with the Cherokee Nation | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient with nation=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | govern | present · passive | chief and council not said here | Delawares = delaware | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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