Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 158
One of the children saw the mitten and Ninicip’s wife sent the child to return it, bidding him not to go too close to Wemicus but to throw him the mitten.
Who acts: children, wife · What happens: see, send, return, bid, not go, throw · To what, where: One, child, wigwam, Ninicip, mitten, Wemicus
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, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 saw | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mitten | det |
| 7 | mitten | mitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 9 | Ninicip | Ninicip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Ninicip | case |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 return | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bidding | punct |
| 19 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sent | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bidding | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 go | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 bidding | xcomp |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 close | advmod |
| 25 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 go | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Wemicus | case |
| 27 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 close | obl |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 throw | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 throw | mark |
| 30 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 throw | obj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 mitten | det |
| 33 | mitten | mitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 throw | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the children | One | the mitten obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mitten=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | send | past | Ninicip's wife | the child | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife not said here | wigwam | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bid | gerund | Ninicip's wife not said here | Ninicip | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not go | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife not said here | close property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | throw | to-infinitive | Ninicip's wife not said here | the mitten | Wemicus | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination mitten=Theme |
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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