Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 171
“There is no use putting any water in the pail,” answered his wife, “we have nothing to cook.”
Who acts: use, wife, we · What happens: be, put, answer, have, cook · To what, where: water, pail, nothing · 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 (use, wife, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 use | det |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 use | acl |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pail | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pail | det |
| 11 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | conj |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 have | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cook | mark |
| 23 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 nothing | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no use | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put in a quote | gerund | no use not said here | any water | the pail | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme in pail=Destination | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | water's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | we | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | cook in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | nothing not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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