Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 25
Then she told him to put his wooden dish upside down before the fire and to leave it there four days and four nights and to look under it every morning.
Who acts: girl · What happens: tell, put, leave, look · To what, where: father, wooden dish upside, fire, upside · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 upside | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 upside | amod |
| 9 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 upside | compound |
| 10 | upside | upside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leave | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 leave | mark |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 leave | advmod |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 days | nummod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 leave | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 nights | cc |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 nights | nummod |
| 24 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 days | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 look | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 look | mark |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | conj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 look | obl |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 morning | det |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 look | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | girl | father | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | father's wooden dish upside | the fire | down property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upside=Theme before fire=Destination | ||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | girl not said here | upside | there | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | girl not said here | morning | under upside | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under it=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.
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