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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 163

So he kept on walking and the only tree that did not answer promptly was the black spruce, and that said, “I’m Se·′se·ga‵ndαk” (black spruce).

Who acts: Cedar, only tree, that, I · What happens: keep, not answer, be, say · To what, where: walking, black spruce, Se · 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 (Cedar, only tree, that, I), 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

advmodnsubjcaseoblccdetamodnsubjnsubjauxadvmodacl:relcladvmodcopdetamodconjpunctccnsubjconjpunctpunctnsubjccompobjpunctcompoundoblpunctapposflatflatpunctpunctamodflatpunctpunctrootSoADVhePRONkeptVERBonADPwalkingNOUNandCCONJtheDETonlyADJtreeNOUNthatPRONdidAUXnotPARTanswerVERBpromptlyADVwasAUXtheDETblackADJspruceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthatPRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRON’mVERBSePROPN·PUNCT′NOUNseNOUN·PUNCTgaX‵XndαkNOUN”PUNCT(PUNCTblackADJspruceNOUN)PUNCT.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 keptadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 keptnsubj
3keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ononADP_5 walkingcase
5walkingwalkingNOUNNumber=Sing3 keptobl
6andandCCONJ_18 sprucecc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 treedet
8onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos9 treeamod
9treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing18 sprucensubj
10thatthatPRONPronType=Rel13 answernsubj
11diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 answeraux
12notnotPARTPolarity=Neg13 answeradvmod
13answeranswerVERBVerbForm=Inf9 treeacl:relcl
14promptlypromptlyADV_13 answeradvmod
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 sprucecop
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 sprucedet
17blackblackADJDegree=Pos18 spruceamod
18sprucespruceNOUNNumber=Sing3 keptconj
19,,PUNCT_22 saidpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 saidcc
21thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 saidnsubj
22saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 keptconj
23,,PUNCT_26 ’mpunct
24“"PUNCT_26 ’mpunct
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 ’mnsubj
26’mbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 saidccomp
27SeSePROPNNumber=Sing26 ’mobj
28··PUNCT_30 sepunct
29′′NOUNNumber=Sing30 secompound
30seseNOUNNumber=Sing26 ’mobl
31··PUNCT_32 gapunct
32gagaXExtPos=PROPN30 seappos
33‵‵X_32 gaflat
34ndαkndαkNOUNNumber=Sing32 gaflat
35”"PUNCT_32 gapunct
36((PUNCT_38 sprucepunct
37blackblackADJDegree=Pos38 spruceamod
38sprucespruceNOUNNumber=Sing32 gaflat
39))PUNCT_38 sprucepunct
40..PUNCT_3 keptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1keeppastCedarwalkingvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on walking=Location
2not answer speech: assertpast · do-supportthe only treepromptly propertyvn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is apastthe only treethe black sprucetree rules
4say speech: assertpastthatvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5be in a quotepresentISe′ se oblvn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot se=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/11/163/