Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 144
By and by ants began to bite Ciŋgibis and he scolded his wives, saying, “Don’t do that.”
Who acts: ants, Ciŋgibis · What happens: begin, bite, scold, say, not do · To what, where: Ciŋgibis, wives, that · 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 (ants, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 ants | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 by | cc |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 1 By | conj |
| 4 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bite | mark |
| 7 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bite | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scolded | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 scolded | nsubj |
| 11 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 scolded | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 18 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | ants | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bite | to-infinitive | ants not said here | Ciŋgibis | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciŋgibis=Patient | ||||
| 3 | scold | past | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis's wives | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | ants not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not do in a quote | infinitive · do-support | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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