Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 88
He lay down by the fire and ano suo dixit to watch the geese while he slept, so that no one would steal them.
Who acts: Suum, one · What happens: lie down, watch, sleep, steal · To what, where: geese, kinds
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 (Suum, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 lay | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dixit | cc |
| 8 | ano | ano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dixit | compound |
| 9 | suo | suo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dixit | compound |
| 10 | dixit | dixit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fire | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 watch | mark |
| 12 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lay | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 geese | det |
| 14 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 watch | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 slept | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slept | nsubj |
| 17 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 steal | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 steal | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 so | fixed |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steal | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 steal | aux |
| 24 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 slept | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 steal | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Suum | by the fire and ano suo dixit | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | Suum not said here | the geese | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | Suum | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | steal | would | no one | kinds = kind | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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