Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 171

Wemicus said, “You say, ‘Fall on my father-in-law,’ and I’ll say, ‘Fall on my son-in-law’, and whoever says it too slowly or makes a mistake will be the one on whom it will fall.”

Who acts: Wemicus, You, whoever, mistake, tree · What happens: say, fall, make, be · To what, where: tree, one · 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, You, whoever, mistake), 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	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fall	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Fall	punct
9	Fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Fall	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 father	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 Fall	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
21	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Fall	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Fall	punct
25	Fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 say	ccomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 son	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 son	nmod:poss
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Fall	obl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 law	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 law	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 in	punct
32	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Fall	parataxis
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 law	punct
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 says	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 says	cc
36	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 says	nsubj
37	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 says	obj
39	too	too	ADV	_	40 slowly	advmod
40	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	37 says	advmod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 makes	cc
42	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 says	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 mistake	det
44	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 one	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 one	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 one	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 one	det
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 makes	ccomp
49	on	on	ADP	_	50 whom	case
50	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 one	nmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fall	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 fall	aux
53	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 whom	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 says	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Wemicus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	You			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fall in a quote	infinitive			on my father in law	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on father=Location
4	say speech: assert in a quote	future	Wemicus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fall in a quote	infinitive			on my son; law parataxis	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on son=Location
6	say speech: assert in a quote	present	whoever	tree	slowly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
7	make in a quote	present	whoever not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	is a in a quote	future	a mistake	the one	whom nmod	tree rules
9	fall in a quote	future	tree			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 171