Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 55

So he told his grandfather that he was going to kill the West Wind for this, but the old man said to him, “Don’t kill him.

Who acts: anger, old man · What happens: tell, go, kill, say, not kill · To what, where: grandfather, West Wind, anger · 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 (anger, old man), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandfather	nmod:poss
5	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 going	aux
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 kill	mark
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wind	det
13	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wind	compound
14	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 kill	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 this	case
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 kill	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kill	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 kill	punct
27	Do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 kill	aux
28	n’t	n't	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 kill	aux
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 said	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 kill	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	anger		anger's grandfather		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	anger				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill	to-infinitive	anger not said here	the West Wind		for this	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man		anger		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	not kill in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the old man not said here	anger			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 55

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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 55