Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 10
After the girl’s father had notified his relatives and friends and they had given their consent, the wedding was permitted to go on.
Who acts: relatives · What happens: notify, give, permit, go on, consent · To what, where: relatives, consent, wedding
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 father | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 notified | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 notified | aux |
| 7 | notified | notify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 9 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 notified | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 friends | cc |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relatives | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 notified | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 consent | nmod:poss |
| 17 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 permitted | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wedding | det |
| 20 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 permitted | aux:pass |
| 22 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 notified | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 permitted | xcomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 notified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notify speech: other | past · perfect | father's relatives and friends | after the girl's father | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relative=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | relatives = relative | relatives's consent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | permit | past · passive | the wedding | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go on not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | consent | relatives = relative | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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