Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 162
My children don’t need any of it, so I might as well eat it all.”
Who acts: children, I · What happens: not need, eat · To what, where: any, way
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, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 children | nmod:poss |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 need | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 need | advmod |
| 5 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 need | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 any | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 eat | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 eat | aux |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 eat | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 need | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 it | det |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | My children | any of way | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot any=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | might | I | way | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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