Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 78
(h) Nenebuc Sends Crow Out, for Disobedience Changes Him Black and Gull Partly Black, then Retires to the West, until He Will Return Again.
Who acts: h Nenebuc Sends, Disobedience · What happens: crow out, change, retire, return · To what, where: Him
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 (h Nenebuc Sends, Disobedience), 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 | _ | 2 h | punct |
| 2 | h | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sends | compound |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 h | punct |
| 4 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sends | compound |
| 5 | Sends | send | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Crow | nsubj |
| 6 | Crow | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 6 Crow | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Changes | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 Changes | mark |
| 10 | Disobedience | Disobedience | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Changes | nsubj |
| 11 | Changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crow | conj |
| 12 | Him | Him | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Changes | obj |
| 13 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Him | flat |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Partly | cc |
| 15 | Gull | Gull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Partly | compound |
| 16 | Partly | Partly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Him | conj |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Partly | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Retires | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Retires | advmod |
| 20 | Retires | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Crow | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 West | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 West | det |
| 23 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Retires | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Return | punct |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 Return | mark |
| 26 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Return | nsubj |
| 27 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 Return | aux |
| 28 | Return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Retires | conj |
| 29 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 28 Return | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow out | present | h Nenebuc Sends | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | present | Disobedience | Him and Gull Partly | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent him=Patient | ||||
| 3 | retire | present | then | to the West | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | future | Disobedience | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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