Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 14
“Well, now it is too bad, but you mustn’t look at the sun,” said her father.
Who acts: sun, you, father · What happens: be, not look, say · 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 (sun, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bad | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 bad | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 bad | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 bad | advmod |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 look | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 look | advmod |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bad | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sun | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bad | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 bad | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | sun | now | bad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not look in a quote | must | you | at the sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | girl's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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