Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 129
Soon a man who was a second chief came to Ciŋgibis and said, “Chief Maŋg wants to see you.
Who acts: man, Chief · What happens: be, come, say, want, see · To what, where: second chief, Ciŋgibis, you · 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 (man, Chief), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 chief | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ciŋgibis | case |
| 11 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wants | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wants | punct |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | Maŋg | Maŋg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 18 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wants | xcomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a man | a second chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a man | Ciŋgibis | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ciŋgibis=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | Chief | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | you | 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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