Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 5
The child threw the mitten to Wemicus and Wemicus sent an invitation to Muskrat to come to his home the next day.
Who acts: child, Wemicus · What happens: throw, send, come · To what, where: mitten, Wemicus, invitation, Muskrat, home
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 (child, Wemicus), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mitten | det |
| 5 | mitten | mitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Wemicus | case |
| 7 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 9 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 invitation | det |
| 12 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Muskrat | case |
| 14 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the child | the mitten | Wemicus | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mitten=Theme to wemicus=Destination | |||
| 2 | send | past | Wemicus | a invitation | Muskrat | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to muskrat=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus's home | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location |
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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