Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 147
As Wemicus was the head man, his son-in-law had to obey him.
Who acts: Wemicus, son · What happens: be, have, obey · To what, where: head man, Wemicus
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 (Wemicus, son), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 man | mark |
| 2 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 obey | mark |
| 16 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 obey | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Wemicus | the head man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Wemicus's son in law | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | Wemicus's son in law not said here | Wemicus | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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