Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 133
“Now you can’t do any harm to the Indians.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do · To what, where: harm
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 harm | det |
| 8 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Indians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indians | det |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 do | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | can | you | any harm | now | to the Indians | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=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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