Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 49
“If they throw these parts of the animals away, they won’t be able to find what creatures they may look for afterward.”
Who acts: skulls · What happens: throw, not be, find, look · To what, where: parts, creatures
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 (skulls), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 throw | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 parts | det |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 throw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 parts | nmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 throw | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 able | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 creatures | det |
| 20 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 afterward | case |
| 25 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | skulls = skull | this parts of the animals | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | not is in a quote | future | skulls = skull | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | skulls = skull not said here | what creatures | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | may | skulls = skull | what creatures not said here | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme creature=Attribute |
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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