Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 71
“I will go and see him and tell him to send the wind once in a while, not too often but just right.”
Who acts: Nenebuc · What happens: go, see, tell, send · To what, where: grandfather, wind · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 send | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 often | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 often | advmod |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 often | advmod |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 send | advmod |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 right | cc |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 right | advmod |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 often | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | Nenebuc | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | grandfather | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | grandfather | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | send not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | the wind | while | often, once property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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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