Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 166
One day Wemicus said to his son-in-law, “We’d better make two canoes of birch-bark, one for you and one for me.
Who acts: Wemicus, We · What happens: say, have, make · To what, where: son, two canoes · 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, We), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 son | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’d | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’d | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’d | nsubj |
| 15 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 ’d | xcomp |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’d | xcomp |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 canoes | nummod |
| 19 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bark | case |
| 21 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bark | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 birch | punct |
| 23 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 canoes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 bark | appos |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 one | cc |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 one | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 me | case |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 one | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's son in law | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | We | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | two canoes of birch bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset canoe=Product |
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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