Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 12
The girl dreamed of the sun, so she could not look at the sun any more, for if she did so, she would have to go away from her parents and live with the sun. When the girl had had this dream, she went back to her parents and her father asked her, “What have you been dreaming?”
Who acts: girl, father · What happens: dream, not look, do, have, go away, live · To what, where: dream, girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, father), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dreamed | nsubj |
| 3 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dreamed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 look | advmod |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dreamed | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sun | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | any | any | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 look | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | advcl |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 have | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 look | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 have | xcomp |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 parents | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 parents | nmod:poss |
| 33 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 go | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 live | cc |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 sun. | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sun. | det |
| 38 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obl |
| 39 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 had | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 girl | det |
| 41 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 had | aux |
| 43 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 live | advcl |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 dream | det |
| 45 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 had | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 went | punct |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 went | nsubj |
| 48 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dreamed | conj |
| 49 | back | back | ADV | _ | 48 went | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 parents | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 parents | nmod:poss |
| 52 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 went | obl |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 asked | cc |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 father | nmod:poss |
| 55 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 asked | nsubj |
| 56 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 went | conj |
| 57 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 asked | iobj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 dreaming | punct |
| 59 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 dreaming | punct |
| 60 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 61 have | obj |
| 61 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 64 dreaming | aux |
| 62 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 61 have | nsubj |
| 63 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 64 dreaming | aux |
| 64 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 asked | ccomp |
| 65 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 64 dreaming | punct |
| 66 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 64 dreaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | the girl | of the sun | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not look | could | girl | at the sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do a condition, not said to happen | past | girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | would | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go away | to-infinitive | girl not said here | from girl's parents; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | live | present | girl not said here | with the sun. | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with sun.=Location | ||||
| 7 | have | past · perfect | the girl | this dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go back | past | girl | to girl's parents result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 9 | ask speech: ask | past | girl's father | girl | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 10 | dream in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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