Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 135
Just run up that black-spruce tree and taste the acorn seeds and then see whether you want to eat people any more.
Who acts: you · What happens: run up, taste, see, want, eat · To what, where: spruce tree, acorn seeds, people · 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 (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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 run | advmod |
| 2 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 run | compound:prt |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spruce | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
| 7 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 run | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taste | cc |
| 10 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 run | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seeds | det |
| 12 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeds | compound |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taste | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 run | conj |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 want | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 want | xcomp |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 eat | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | imperative | you not said here | that spruce tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | taste | infinitive | you not said here | the acorn seeds | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme seed=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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