Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 1
Now ere they were born, The two a council held That they might decide How they would be born.
Who acts: council, That · What happens: bear, hold, decide · To what, where: they, two · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council, That), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 born | advmod |
| 2 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 5 born | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 held | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 council | det |
| 10 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | nsubj |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | parataxis |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 decide | nsubj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 decide | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 decide | aux |
| 15 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 held | advcl |
| 16 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 born | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 decide | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | they | now | ere property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | past | a council | the two | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | might | That | they nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bear | would · passive | they | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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