Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 21, sentence 8
The herald read the marriage wampum in the presence of the girl and her father, formally stating that such and such a suitor sought his daughter’s hand in marriage.
Who acts: herald, suitor · What happens: read, state, seek · To what, where: marriage wampum, presence, hand, marriage
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 (herald, suitor), 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 herald | det |
| 2 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wampum | det |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wampum | compound |
| 6 | wampum | wampum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 presence | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 presence | det |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 presence | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 father | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 girl | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stating | punct |
| 17 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 18 stating | advmod |
| 18 | stating | state | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 read | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 such | mark |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 stating | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sought | cc |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 suitor | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 suitor | det |
| 24 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stating | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 27 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 daughter | case |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 marriage | case |
| 31 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | the herald | the marriage wampum | the presence of the girl and herald's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wampum=Topic | |||
| 2 | state speech: other | gerund | the herald not said here | formally, such property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | such suitor | father's daughter's hand | marriage | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in marriage=Location |
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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