Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 41

When the older of the two men saw this, he said, ‘We must go home at once and give up hunting because something is wrong at home.’

Who acts: two men, man, We, something · What happens: see, say, go, give up, be · To what, where: this, hunting, home · 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 (two men, man, We, something), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 older	det
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 saw	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 men	nummod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 saw	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 go	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 give	compound:prt
24	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 wrong	mark
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 wrong	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wrong	cop
28	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 give	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 home	case
30	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wrong	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the two men	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	must	We			home property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
4	give up	infinitive	We not said here	hunting			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Source
5	is	present	something		home	wrong property	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.

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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 41