Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 185
Wemicus told Muskrat that he was starving and Muskrat said to his wife, “You had better make a fire in the hot sand.”
Who acts: Wemicus, Muskrat · What happens: tell, starve, say, have, make · To what, where: Muskrat, wife, fire, hot sand · 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 (Wemicus, Muskrat), 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 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 starving | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 starving | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 starving | aux |
| 7 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 had | xcomp |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sand | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sand | det |
| 24 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sand | amod |
| 25 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Muskrat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent muskrat=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | starve | past · progressive | Wemicus | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Muskrat | Wemicus's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Muskrat | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | infinitive | Muskrat not said here | a fire | the hot sand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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