Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 92
When he came to the wigwam, he found that Wemicus and his family had hardly any meat left, so he said to Wemicus, “Come out and let me see your fence.”
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: come, find, have, leave, say, come out · To what, where: wigwam, meat, Wemicus, fence · 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), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 wigwam | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wigwam | det |
| 6 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 11 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 family | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wemicus | conj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | ccomp |
| 16 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 meat | det |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 meat | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Wemicus | case |
| 25 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 28 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 Come | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 let | cc |
| 31 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 Come | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 let | obj |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 let | xcomp |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Wemicus | the wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Wemicus | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Wemicus and Wemicus's family | any meat | hardly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | participle | any meat not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wemicus=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | come out in a quote | infinitive | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | Wemicus | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | see in a quote | infinitive | Wemicus not said here | your fence | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fence=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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