Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 72
So Nenebuc went to his brother, the West Wind, and said to him, “I came here to tell you that I want a little wind once in a while, but not too much.”
Who acts: Nenebuc, I · What happens: go, say, come, tell, want · To what, where: grandfather, little 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, I), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wind | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wind | det |
| 9 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wind | compound |
| 10 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 tell | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 want | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 wind | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wind | amod |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | obj |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 want | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 while | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 while | det |
| 33 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 much | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 much | cc |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 much | advmod |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Nenebuc | to grandfather's brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | grandfather | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | I | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | grandfather | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | I | a little wind | while | once property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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