Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 175

After they were made, Wemicus said to his son-in-law, “Well, we’ll have a race in our two canoes, a sailing race.”

Who acts: Wemicus, we · What happens: make, say, have, sail · To what, where: bones, son, race, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
6	Wemicus	Wemicus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 son	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
17	Well	well	INTJ	_	21 have	discourse
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Well	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 race	det
23	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 canoes	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 canoes	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 canoes	nummod
27	canoes	canoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 race	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 race	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 race	det
30	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 race	amod
31	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 race	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past · passive		bones = bone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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 clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	future	we	a race		our two canoes	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient
4	sail in a quote	gerund					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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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 175