Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 65
Then the West Wind told his three brothers not to blow, for if they did Nenebuc would come and kill them.
Who acts: West Wind, Nenebuc · What happens: tell, not blow, come, kill · To what, where: three brothers, winds · 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 (West Wind, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wind | det |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Wind | compound |
| 4 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | iobj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 blow | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 blow | mark |
| 11 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 did | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 17 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 blow | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kill | cc |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the West Wind | grandfather's three brothers | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | not blow not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | come | would · past · do-support | Nenebuc | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | winds = wind | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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