Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 136
So they decided to go and peep in at the dancers if Ciŋgibis should not see them.
Who acts: wives, Ciŋgibis · What happens: decide, go, peep, not see · To what, where: wives
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 (wives, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 peep | cc |
| 7 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 peep | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 dancers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dancers | det |
| 11 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peep | obl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 13 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 peep | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | wives = wife | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | wives = wife not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | peep | infinitive | wives = wife not said here | at the dancers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dancer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see a condition, not said to happen | should | Ciŋgibis | wives = wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/136/