Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 41
But the older ones told them to be silent, as they thought some old women had testicles.
Who acts: older ones, children, old women · What happens: tell, be, think, have · To what, where: children, testicles · 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 (older ones, children, old women), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ones | det |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ones | amod |
| 4 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 silent | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 silent | cop |
| 9 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 women | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 women | amod |
| 16 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | testicles | testicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the older ones | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | silent property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | children = child | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | some old women | testicles | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent testicle=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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