Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 156
When the ice chisel became red hot, the old grandmother said, “Say, Ciŋgibis, don’t do any mischief again,” but Ciŋgibis picked up the chisel and ran away with it to the wigwam of Loon.
Who acts: ice chisel, old grandmother, Ciŋgibis · What happens: become, say, not do, pick up, run away · To what, where: mischief, chisel, wigwam · 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 (ice chisel, old grandmother, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 became | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chisel | det |
| 3 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chisel | compound |
| 4 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | advcl |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hot | amod |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grandmother | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandmother | amod |
| 11 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 15 | Say | say | INTJ | _ | 17 Ciŋgibis | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ciŋgibis | punct |
| 17 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 do | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ciŋgibis | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 do | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 mischief | det |
| 23 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 do | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 picked | cc |
| 28 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 picked | nsubj |
| 29 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 picked | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 chisel | det |
| 32 | chisel | chisel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 picked | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ran | cc |
| 34 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 picked | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 ran | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 ran | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 wigwam | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wigwam | det |
| 40 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ran | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Loon | case |
| 42 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 wigwam | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the ice chisel | hot property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old grandmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Ciŋgibis | any mischief | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | pick up | past | Ciŋgibis | the chisel | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chisel=Topic | ||||
| 5 | run away | past | Ciŋgibis not said here | the wigwam of Loon | with mischief; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Destination |
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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