Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 159
The child did the bidding of his mother and, when the mitten was thrown to Wemicus, he said, “Ask your father to come and see me,” and he named a certain day.
Who acts: child, Wemicus · What happens: do, throw, say, ask, come, see · To what, where: bidding, mitten, Wemicus, father, mother · 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 (child, Wemicus), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bidding | det |
| 5 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bidding | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thrown | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thrown | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 thrown | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mitten | det |
| 13 | mitten | mitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thrown | aux:pass |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Wemicus | case |
| 17 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ask | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ask | punct |
| 23 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Ask | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 Ask | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 see | cc |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 see | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ask | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Ask | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 named | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 named | nsubj |
| 35 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 day | det |
| 37 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 day | amod |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 named | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the child | the bidding of Wemicus's mother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | the mitten | Wemicus | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to wemicus=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Wemicus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | your father | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | Wemicus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | name | past | Wemicus | day | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | bid | Wemicus's mother | nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=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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