Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 66
And yet at a later day At a place afar in the North, There were many Indians assembled When there came a strange commotion.
Who acts: many Indians · What happens: be, assemble, come · To what, where: strange commotion
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 (many Indians), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 were | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 were | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yet | obl |
| 7 | At | at | ADP | _ | 10 afar | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 afar | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afar | compound |
| 10 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 North | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 North | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 afar | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 yet | punct |
| 15 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 assembled | advcl |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Indians | amod |
| 18 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 assembled | nsubj |
| 19 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 came | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 came | expl |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 assembled | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 commotion | det |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 commotion | amod |
| 25 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | many Indians not said here | there | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | assemble | past | many Indians | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | many Indians not said here | a strange commotion | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location commotion=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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