Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 131
The Bear, now a Squirrel, said he would continue to eat people, but he was so small that he could not do anything.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: say, continue, eat, be, not do · To what, where: people, anything · 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 (Bear), 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 | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Squirrel | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 Squirrel | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Squirrel | det |
| 6 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bear | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 continue | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 continue | aux |
| 11 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continue | xcomp |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 small | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 small | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 small | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 small | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 small | advcl |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Bear and a Squirrel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | continue | would | Bear | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Bear not said here | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Bear | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not do | could | Bear | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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