Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 36
The old man told him to attend to the world and to keep the winds going just right lest the water get stagnant and bad.
Who acts: old man, winds · What happens: tell, attend, keep, go, get · To what, where: One · 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 (old man, winds), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attend | mark |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 keep | mark |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attend | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winds | det |
| 15 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 get | nsubj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 winds | acl |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 right | advmod |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 going | advmod |
| 19 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 keep | ccomp |
| 23 | stagnant | stagnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 get | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bad | cc |
| 25 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stagnant | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old man | One | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | attend not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | to the world | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to world=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | gerund | the winds not said here | lest the water; right property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | present | the winds | stagnant property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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