Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 122
The old man looked at it and, laughing, said, “That’s not a porcupine quill, that’s a hair from Nenebuc’s groin!”
Who acts: old man, That · What happens: look, laugh, say, not be, be · To what, where: porcupine quill, hair, groin · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, That), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 9 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughing | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quill | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 quill | punct |
| 14 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 quill | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 quill | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 quill | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 quill | det |
| 18 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quill | compound |
| 19 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hair | punct |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hair | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hair | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hair | det |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 quill | appos |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 groin | case |
| 26 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 groin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Nenebuc | case |
| 28 | groin | groin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hair | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 hair | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 quill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old man | at quill | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the old man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | That | a porcupine quill | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | that | a hair | Nenebuc's groin | tree rules |
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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