Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 130
When she heard this, the wife told her husband that, as it was getting summer, Wemicus had in his head many poisonous lizards instead of lice.
Who acts: ice, wife, that, law, Wemicus · What happens: hear, tell, husband, get, have · To what, where: this, many poisonous lizards, head · 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 (ice, wife, that, law), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wife | det |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 husband | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 getting | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 getting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 told | ccomp |
| 17 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 getting | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 19 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obl |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lizards | amod |
| 25 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lizards | amod |
| 26 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 27 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 29 lice | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 instead | fixed |
| 29 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lizards | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | ice | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | husband | that | wife nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | get | past · progressive | law | summer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Wemicus | many poisonous lizards | Wemicus's head | instead lice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=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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