Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 35

So he went home.”—“If a hunter sees an albino animal he must stop hunting or evil will befall him or some member of his family.”

Who acts: harm, hunter, albino animal · What happens: go, see, stop, hunt, befall · To what, where: albino animal, harm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, hunter, albino animal), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 sees	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 sees	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 sees	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sees	nsubj
12	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 animal	det
14	albino	albino	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 animal	compound
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 befall	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stop	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stop	aux
18	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 animal	acl:relcl
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 stop	xcomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 evil	cc
21	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunting	conj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 befall	aux
23	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sees	ccomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 befall	obj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 member	cc
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 member	det
27	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 him	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 family	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 family	nmod:poss
30	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 member	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	harm		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present	a hunter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stop	must	harm	a albino animal not said here		tree rules
4	hunt	gerund	harm not said here		evil conj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	befall	future	a albino animal	harm		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: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/10/35/

🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 35