Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 85
He told his wife to hold the horn and stay near by, while he got a club to kill the game with.
Who acts: Wemicus, club · What happens: tell, hold, stay, get, kill · To what, where: wife, horn, club, game · 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, club), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hold | mark |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horn | det |
| 8 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stay | cc |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hold | conj |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 stay | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 near | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 got | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 club | det |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 kill | mark |
| 20 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 game | det |
| 22 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kill | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 kill | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | the horn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | infinitive | Wemicus not said here | near property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Wemicus | a club | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill | to-infinitive | a club not said here | the game | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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