Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 53

Then all sat down to a meal, But all that was placed before them Was one small dish of meat, A very tiny morsel.

What happens: sit down, place, be · To what, where: all, one small dish

This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dish	advcl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 meal	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 placed	punct
9	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 placed	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 placed	nsubj:pass
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 all	obj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 placed	aux:pass
13	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 placed	obl
16	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dish	cop
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 dish	nummod
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dish	amod
19	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 meat	case
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dish	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 morsel	punct
23	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 morsel	det
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 tiny	advmod
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 morsel	amod
26	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meat	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 dish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past		then	to a meal	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	place	past · passive	all that	before moose		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before they=Destination
3	is a	past	one small dish		of meat and a tiny morsel	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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🌲 Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 5, sentence 53