Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 125
The girl’s father then notified his relations and friends, and if there was no objection, he ordered his daughter to seat herself on the skin, as a sign that the young man’s suit was acceptable.
Who acts: father, objection, suit · What happens: notify, be, order · To what, where: relations, seat, daughter, sign
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, objection, suit), 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 | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 girl | case |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 notified | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 notified | advmod |
| 6 | notified | notify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 relations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 notified | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 friends | cc |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 relations | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ordered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ordered | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 was | mark |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 objection | det |
| 17 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | nsubj |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 notified | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seat | mark |
| 24 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | xcomp |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 seat | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 skin | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 skin | det |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seat | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sign | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 sign | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sign | det |
| 32 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | parataxis |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 acceptable | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 suit | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 man | case |
| 38 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 acceptable | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 acceptable | cop |
| 40 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sign | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 notified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notify speech: other | past | the girl's father | father's relations and friends | then | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relation=Recipient | |||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | no objection | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | past | father | seat objection on the skin | father's daughter | a sign parataxis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | the young man's suit | a sign not said here | acceptable property | 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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