Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 20, sentence 47
The chief notified his men that his brothers were ready to go, but that they should not be allowed to go so soon.
Who acts: chief, brothers · What happens: notify, be, go, not allow · To what, where: men, brothers
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 (chief, brothers), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 notified | nsubj |
| 3 | notified | notify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 notified | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 ready | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 notified | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 allowed | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 allowed | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 allowed | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 allowed | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | aux:pass |
| 20 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 notified | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowed | xcomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 go | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 notified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notify speech: other | past | the chief | CHIEF's men | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | CHIEF's brothers | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | CHIEF's brothers not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not allow | should · passive | brothers = brother | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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