Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 120
He then told the girls, “At the village your sister-in-law will come down to see you.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis, sister · What happens: tell, come down, see · To what, where: girls, village · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciŋgibis, sister), 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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 8 | At | at | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sister | nmod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Ciŋgibis | the girls | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come down in a quote | future | your sister in law | the village | down property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at village=Location | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | your sister in law not said here | the girls = girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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