Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 143
When the first animal guest came along and saw Nenebuc in the tree, he, the Beaver, said “Come on to the feast, Nenebuc is caught and can’t stop us.”
Who acts: first animal guest, guest · What happens: come along, see, say, come on, catch, not stop · To what, where: Nenebuc, tree, feast, us · 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 (first animal guest, guest), 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 | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guest | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 guest | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guest | compound |
| 5 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Beaver | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beaver | det |
| 18 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 he | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 he | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
| 22 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 Come | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 feast | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 feast | det |
| 26 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 caught | punct |
| 28 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 caught | aux:pass |
| 30 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Come | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stop | cc |
| 32 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 stop | aux |
| 33 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 stop | advmod |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 caught | conj |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 stop | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | the first animal guest | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the first animal guest not said here | Nenebuc | the tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nenebuc=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | guest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come on in a quote | infinitive | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | catch in a quote | present · passive | Nenebuc | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not stop in a quote | can | us | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality we=Eventuality |
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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