Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 121
The young man’s father then notified all the relatives and friends of the family that his son wished to marry such and such a girl.
Who acts: father, son · What happens: notify, wish, marry · To what, where: relatives
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, son), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 notified | nsubj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 notified | advmod |
| 7 | notified | notify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 relatives | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 relatives | det |
| 10 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 notified | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 friends | cc |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 relatives | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friends | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 wished | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wished | nsubj |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 notified | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wished | xcomp |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 marry | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 girl | cc |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 girl | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 such | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 notified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notify speech: other | past | the young man's father | all relatives and friends of the family | then | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relative=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish | past | father's son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | father's son not said here | such property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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