Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 31
He saw that Meme had not much to live on, but nevertheless Meme told his wife to get the cooking pail ready.
Who acts: Meme · What happens: see, have, live on, tell, get · To what, where: much, wife, cooking pail · 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 (Meme), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 much | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 13 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 14 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pail | det |
| 21 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pail | compound |
| 22 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Meme | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Meme | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live on | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Meme | Meme's wife | nevertheless property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cooking pail | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pail=Stimulus |
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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