Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 102
[31] That night in camp Wemicus said, “I didn’t tell you the name of this lake.
Who acts: night · What happens: say, not tell, name · To what, where: 31, name, you, lake · 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 (night), 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 31 | punct |
| 2 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 said | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 31 | punct |
| 4 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | nmod |
| 8 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 camp | appos |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 lake | det |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 name | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that night in camp | 31 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | that night in camp = night | the name of this lake | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 3 | name in a quote | this lake | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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