Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 128
“A man came along and asked us our name and, when we told him ‘Kαckuŋge′s·i,’ super nos defaecavit.
Who acts: man, we, Partridge, our · What happens: come along, ask, tell, nos, name · To what, where: name, us, ′, defaecavit · 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 (man, we, Partridge, our), 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 | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 nos | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 told | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 nos | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 18 | Kαckuŋge | Kαckuŋge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 i | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ′ | ′ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kαckuŋge | flat |
| 20 | s | 's | PART | Typo=Yes | 18 Kαckuŋge | case |
| 21 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 22 i | punct |
| 22 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 nos | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 i | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 i | punct |
| 25 | super | super | ADV | _ | 26 nos | advmod |
| 26 | nos | nos | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 27 | defaecavit | defaecavit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nos | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along in a quote | past | a man | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | a man not said here | our name | us | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | we | ′ | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | nos in a quote | infinitive | Partridge | defaecavit | super property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | name in a quote | our | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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