Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 83
When he reached his wigwam, he showed his wife the horn which Skunk had given him, saying, “Skunk gave me that.”
Who acts: Wemicus, Skunk · What happens: reach, show, give, say · To what, where: wigwam, horn, wife, Wemicus, that · 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, Skunk), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 showed | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 showed | nsubj |
| 8 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horn | det |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 showed | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 given | nsubj |
| 14 | Skunk | Skunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horn | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 showed | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | Skunk | Skunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's wigwam | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | past | Wemicus | the horn | Wemicus's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient horn=Topic | |||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | the horn | Wemicus | Skunk nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Wemicus not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | past | Skunk | that | Wemicus | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient that=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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