CATEGORYcat.mood
mood
The morphological marking of a speaker's stance toward the factual status of what they assert, such as certainty, possibility, obligation, or ability.
Mood is the morphological marking of modality, the status a speaker assigns to a proposition from their own point of view rather than a fact about the world the proposition describes. Propositional modality concerns how confident a speaker is in a proposition's truth, ranging from a speculative judgment that it is merely possible through a deductive judgment that it must be so. Event modality concerns events that have not been actualized: a deontic reading marks permission or obligation imposed by some outside authority or convention, while a dynamic reading marks ability or willingness that comes from the individual involved rather than from any external source. These distinct kinds of modal meaning tend to be grouped by a grammar into a smaller number of superordinate moods, such as an indicative that covers ordinary assertion and a subjunctive that gathers together several kinds of non-assertive or dependent meaning, so that the moods a language actually marks are broader groupings over this finer underlying space rather than one mood per meaning.
- status
status documentedasserted, and the sources agree- provenance
provenance authoredwritten for Logos, from first principles- derivation status
derivation_status unstatednobody has said whether it follows from anything- salience
salience - No salience. Where no frequency source applies the object carries none, rather than a default or a guess (03-schema.md §3.5).
- aliases
aliases - None recorded.
- sources
sources - SOURCEUniMorph Schema (Sylak-Glassman 2016)
src.unimorph-schemano page in v1
- SOURCEUniMorph Schema (Sylak-Glassman 2016)
What kind of category this is
category.classificationA category is either a question or one of its answers. Which it is decides what else may be said about it.
- tier
tier dimensiona question a language can answer: it has a set of values- comparability
comparability comparativethe same category is compared across languages- scope
scope - No language scope. The field is null and that is an assertion, not a silence: a category is language-particular exactly when it names one.
- groups
groups verbalit lives on verbs
- ordered
ordered - the values are a set, and their order is arbitrary
The values this dimension admits
category.valuesOne admits edge per value. A dimension with no values is a question nobody has answered.
- CATEGORYconditional
cat.conditional - CATEGORYimperative
cat.imperative - CATEGORYindicative
cat.indicative - CATEGORYjussive
cat.jussive - CATEGORYnecessitative
cat.necessitative - CATEGORYoptative
cat.optative - CATEGORYpotential
cat.potential - CATEGORYsubjunctive
cat.subjunctive
This dimension declares no order. Listed alphabetically, which is a display choice and not a fact about the values.
Everything joined to this object
One group per typed edge, in both directions. A1b guarantees no object node is an orphan, so this is the whole navigation: an object with no edges would have failed the build rather than reached this page.
What this object is a kind of
Walking this object's own `is-a` edges: what it is a kind of. Several branches from one object are several classification axes, not competing supertypes.
- objects
- 1
- places drawn
- 1
- multi-parent
- None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
- CATEGORYmood
cat.moodCATEGORYThe morphological marking of a speaker's stance toward the factual status of what they assert, such as certainty, possibility, obligation, or ability.
Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.
Fan-out per dimension
A4One row per dimension, largest first. That is a display order, not a verdict: 03-schema.md declares no threshold above which fan-out is too much, so this reports the count and grades nothing.
- case13 values
- mood8 values
- voice8 values
- aspect7 values
- aktionsart6 values
- number6 values
- person6 values
- tense6 values
- comparison4 values
- evidentiality4 values
- gender4 values
- politeness4 values
- valency4 values
- animacy3 values
- definiteness3 values
- deixis3 values
- finiteness2 values
- information structure2 values
- interrogativity2 values
- polarity2 values
- switch-reference2 values
What kinds of this object there are
Walking the `is-a` edges that point at this object: what kinds of it there are. An object reachable two ways is drawn in both places and is still one object.
- objects
- 1
- places drawn
- 1
- multi-parent
- None in this view. This subgraph happens to be a tree, which the explorer draws as one without assuming it is one.
- CATEGORYmood
cat.moodCATEGORYThe morphological marking of a speaker's stance toward the factual status of what they assert, such as certainty, possibility, obligation, or ability.
Siblings are listed by name, then by id to break ties. That is a display choice made here and not an order the graph asserts.
has-a
edges.has-athe parent carries this
these carry this object
- CLASSverbo
cls.spa.verbodocumentedmodeinherent
modeinherent
modeinherent
modeinherent
modeinherent
- REALIZATIONmood in English
rlz.eng.mooddocumentedmodeinherent
modeinherent
selects
edges.selectsthe parent requires this elsewhere
these require this object elsewhere
conditionThe mood of the subordinate verb is chosen by the main verb rather than by the subordinate clause, so the construction is the main site of mood selection in the grammar.
conditionThe mood of the subordinate clause is not fixed by the conjunction: the indicative asserts the obstacle and the subjunctive presents it as granted for the sake of argument or as not yet known.
derives
edges.derivesthe why-chain
derived by