Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 170
He wanted the tree to fall on him and kill him.
Who acts: Wemicus, tree · What happens: want, fall, kill · To what, where: tree, Wemicus
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, tree), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fall | mark |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fall | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kill | cc |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fall | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Wemicus | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tree not said here | on Wemicus | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive | the tree not said here | Wemicus | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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