Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 158
The man flew back to camp and told his wife to cook the eggs, and he told his children to play with the wings.
Who acts: man · What happens: fly back, tell, cook, play · To what, where: wife, eggs, children · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cook | mark |
| 12 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eggs | det |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cook | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 told | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 play | mark |
| 22 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 wings | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wings | det |
| 25 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 play | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly back | past | the man | to camp result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the man not said here | man's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cook not said to happen | to-infinitive | the man not said here | the eggs | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | man | man's children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | with the wings | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wing=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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