Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 126
So Nenebuc went to the Bear and said, “You are eating so many of the Indians that they will all be gone soon.
Who acts: Nenebuc, You · What happens: go, say, eat · To what, where: Bear, many Indians, Indians · 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 (Nenebuc, You), 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 Bear | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bear | det |
| 6 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eating | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 eating | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 eating | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eating | aux |
| 13 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Indians | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Indians | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Indians | det |
| 18 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 eating | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 gone | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 gone | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gone | aux:pass |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eating | advcl |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 gone | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Nenebuc | the Bear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nenebuc not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | present · progressive | You | the many Indians | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future · passive | Indians = indian | all, soon property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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