Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 150
When the man reached the shore, Wemicus told him to go farther back on the island, saying, “That’s where the former husbands got their eggs, there are their bones.”
Who acts: man, Wemicus, former husbands, bones · What happens: reach, tell, go back, say, get, be · To what, where: shore, man, island, 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 (man, Wemicus, former husbands, bones), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | xcomp |
| 13 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 island | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 island | det |
| 17 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 told | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ’s | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ’s | punct |
| 22 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 ’s | nsubj |
| 23 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 are | advcl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 got | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 husbands | det |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 husbands | amod |
| 27 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 got | nsubj |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ’s | advcl |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 got | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 are | punct |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 are | expl |
| 33 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bones | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 are | nsubj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the man | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Wemicus | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the island | far property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Wemicus not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past | the former husbands | husbands's eggs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | does in a quote | present | eggs's bones | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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