Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 122
If the friends and relations were willing, the son was permitted to offer his suit.
Who acts: friends · What happens: be, permit, offer · To what, where: son, suit
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 (friends), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 willing | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friends | det |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 relations | cc |
| 5 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 friends | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 permitted | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 permitted | aux:pass |
| 12 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 willing | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 offer | mark |
| 14 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 permitted | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 suit | nmod:poss |
| 16 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 offer | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the friends and relations | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | permit | past · passive | the son | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | offer not said to happen | to-infinitive | son's suit | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent suit=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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