Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 154
Then one of the children of Ninicip took spoons and, dipping them in the pot, said, “Soup, soup, soup, rice soup.”
Who acts: children · What happens: take, dip, say · To what, where: spoons, pot · 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 (children), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 took | advcl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ninicip | case |
| 7 | Ninicip | Ninicip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 children | nmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 said | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dipping | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dipping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dipping | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Soup | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Soup | punct |
| 21 | Soup | Soup | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 soup | punct |
| 23 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Soup | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 soup | punct |
| 25 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Soup | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 soup | punct |
| 27 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 soup | compound |
| 28 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Soup | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the children of Ninicip | spoons | one advcl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoon=Theme | |||
| 2 | dip | gerund | spoons = spoon | the pot | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the children of Ninicip not said here | Soup and rice soup ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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