Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 29
This did not worry Nenebuc, for he thought, “It will be all right, unless they notice me too closely.”
Who acts: This, Nenebuc, scrotum, Lions · What happens: not worry, think, be, notice · To what, where: Nenebuc · 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 (This, Nenebuc, scrotum, Lions), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 worry | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 worry | advmod |
| 4 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 worry | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 worry | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 right | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 right | cop |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 right | advmod |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 notice | punct |
| 18 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 20 notice | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 notice | nsubj |
| 20 | notice | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 notice | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 closely | advmod |
| 23 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 20 notice | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 worry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not worry | past · do-support | This | Nenebuc | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nenebuc=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Nenebuc | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | scrotum | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | notice a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Lions = lion | Nenebuc | closely property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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