Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 111
“Tie the string to my leg and I’ll dive for something to eat.
Who acts: you, Ciŋgibis · What happens: tie, dive, eat · To what, where: string
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ciŋgibis), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tie | punct |
| 2 | Tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 string | det |
| 4 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tie | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 leg | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tie | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dive | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dive | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 dive | aux |
| 11 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Tie | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 dive | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 something | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the string | to my leg | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient to leg=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | dive in a quote | future | Ciŋgibis | for something | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Ciŋgibis not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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