Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 149
Wemicus stayed in the canoe and told the man to go ashore and to bring the eggs back with him and fill the canoe.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: stay, tell, go, bring back, fill · To what, where: canoe, man, eggs · 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 (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 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 canoe | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 12 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eggs | det |
| 17 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bring | obj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 bring | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fill | cc |
| 22 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 canoe | det |
| 24 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fill | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Wemicus | the canoe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Wemicus not said here | the man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the eggs | with Wemicus | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | |||
| 5 | fill | infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the canoe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent canoe=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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