Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
The last recognized Delaware chief of this division of the tribe was Charles Jurney-cake, whose daughters are now married to white men.
Who acts: last recognized Delaware chief · What happens: recognize, be, marry · To what, where: Charles, daughters
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 (last recognized Delaware 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 | 5 chief | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chief | amod |
| 3 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 chief | amod |
| 4 | Delaware | Delaware | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | compound |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 division | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 division | det |
| 8 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chief | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tribe | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tribe | det |
| 11 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 division | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Charles | cop |
| 13 | Charles | Charles | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | Jurney | Jurney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | flat |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 cake | punct |
| 16 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Charles | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 married | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 married | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 married | aux:pass |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 married | advmod |
| 22 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Charles | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 married | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Charles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the last recognized Delaware chief of this division of the tribe | Charles and cake | cake conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | present · passive | daughters | now | to white men | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to man=Co-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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