Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 100
The man’s wife warned him before they started out to hunt, saying, “Look out for my father; he might burn your moccasins in camp.
Who acts: wife, husbands, man · What happens: warn, start out, hunt, say, look out, burn · To what, where: man, moccasins, camp · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husbands, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 man | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warned | nsubj |
| 5 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warned | obj |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 started | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warned | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hunt | mark |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 started | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hunt | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Look | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Look | punct |
| 17 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 Look | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Look | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 burn | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 burn | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 burn | aux |
| 25 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 warned | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 27 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 burn | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 camp | case |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 burn | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | the man's wife | man | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | start out | past | husbands = husband | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hunt | to-infinitive | husbands = husband not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | husbands = husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look out in a quote | infinitive | for my father | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for father=Theme | |||||
| 6 | burn in a quote | might | man | your moccasins | camp | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moccasin=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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