Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 43
When he got home, he told his wife that Meme was starving but that he was coming to visit them the following day.
Who acts: raccoon, Meme · What happens: get, tell, starve, come, visit, follow · To what, where: wife, potatoes · 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 (raccoon, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 starving | mark |
| 11 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 starving | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 starving | aux |
| 13 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 coming | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 coming | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 coming | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 coming | aux |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 starving | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 visit | mark |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 coming | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visit | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 23 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 day | amod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visit | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | raccoon | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | raccoon | raccoon's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | starve | past · progressive | Meme | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come | past · progressive | raccoon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | raccoon not said here | potatoes = potato | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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