Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 48
His grandfather told him that he had kept him at home so that when he became old and feeble Nenebuc would be able to help him, cut wood for him, and hunt for him.
Who acts: grandfather, Nenebuc · What happens: tell, keep, become, be, help, cut · To what, where: One, grandfather, home, wood · 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 (grandfather, Nenebuc), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 kept | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 became | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 became | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 feeble | cc |
| 19 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 old | conj |
| 20 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 able | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 old | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cut | punct |
| 28 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cut | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cut | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hunt | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hunt | cc |
| 34 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 cut | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hunt | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | grandfather's grandfather | One | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect · passive | grandfather | home | One obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||
| 3 | become | past | grandfather | old property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | would | Nenebuc | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | grandfather | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | cut | past | wood | for grandfather | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | hunt | infinitive | for grandfather | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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