Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 169
They cut a tree almost through and Wemicus said to his son-in-law, “You sit on that side and I’ll sit on this.”
Who acts: gulls, Wemicus, son · What happens: cut, say, sit · To what, where: tree, son, side, this · 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 (gulls, Wemicus, son), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 through | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADV | _ | 2 cut | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sit | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sit | punct |
| 19 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 sit | nsubj |
| 20 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sit | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sit | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 sit | nsubj |
| 26 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sit | aux |
| 27 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cut | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 sit | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 sit | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | gulls = gull | a tree | through property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's son in law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | Wemicus's son in law = son | that side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | future | Wemicus | this | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on this=Location |
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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