Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 56
Make him let the wind blow a while and then stop, so that everything will be all right, but don’t kill him.”
Who acts: you, grandfather, wind, everything · What happens: make, let, blow, stop, be, not kill · To what, where: grandfather, wind
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 (you, grandfather, wind, everything), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Make | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blow | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stop | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 stop | advmod |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blow | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 right | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 right | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 right | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 right | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 right | advmod |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stop | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kill | cc |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 kill | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 kill | advmod |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | grandfather | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | grandfather not said here | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow | infinitive | the wind not said here | while | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stop | infinitive | the wind not said here | then | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | future | everything | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not kill | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | grandfather | 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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