Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 32
One of the brothers, the second brother, had horns on his head and the old man said to him, “You won’t stay here.
Who acts: One, horns, cloud · What happens: have, say, not stay · To what, where: cloud · 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 (One, horns, cloud), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 had | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brothers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brother | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brothers | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horns | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | conj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stay | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 stay | punct |
| 24 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 stay | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 stay | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 stay | advmod |
| 27 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | conj |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 stay | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | One | the brothers and the second brother nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | horns on cloud's head and the old man | cloud | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not stay in a quote | future | cloud | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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