Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 151
Ninicip was inside of his wigwam, and when he saw Wemicus coming, he told his wife, “You had better begin to get ready for company and boil water in the stone pail.”
Who acts: Ninicip, Wemicus, wife · What happens: be, see, come, tell, have, begin · To what, where: wigwam, Wemicus, wife, water · 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 (Ninicip, Wemicus, wife), 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 | Ninicip | Ninicip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wigwam | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wigwam | cop |
| 3 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 wigwam | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wigwam | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wigwam | conj |
| 12 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Wemicus | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 21 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | conj |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 had | advmod |
| 24 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 begin | xcomp |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 company | case |
| 29 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ready | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 boil | cc |
| 31 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | conj |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 boil | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 pail | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 pail | det |
| 35 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pail | compound |
| 36 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 boil | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wigwam | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wigwam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ninicip | Ninicip's wigwam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Ninicip | Wemicus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wemicus=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Wemicus not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | Wemicus's wife = wife | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | begin in a quote | infinitive | Wemicus's wife = wife not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Wemicus's wife = wife not said here | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | boil in a quote | present | Wemicus's wife = wife not said here | water | in the stone pail | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in pail=Instrument |
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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