Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 165
Thought he, “I must try another scheme to do away with him.”
Who acts: I · What happens: think, try, do away · To what, where: man, scheme · 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 (I), 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 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Thought | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 try | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Thought | ccomp |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 scheme | det |
| 9 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | must | I | another scheme | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do away not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | with man; away property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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