Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 131
She said, “He will tell you to pick lice from his head and crack them in your teeth.
Who acts: wife, Wemicus · What happens: say, tell, pick, crack · To what, where: you, lice, head, teeth · 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, Wemicus), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pick | mark |
| 10 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | xcomp |
| 11 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pick | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crack | cc |
| 16 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 crack | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crack | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | Wemicus | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pick not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | lice | Wemicus's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent louse=Theme from head=Source | |||
| 4 | crack in a quote | infinitive | Wemicus not said here | lice = louse | your teeth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=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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