Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 203
The other guests told the Otter, “You mustn’t laugh when Beaver does that; he is our chief.”
Who acts: other guests, Otter, Beaver · What happens: tell, not laugh, do, be · To what, where: Otter, that, chief · 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 (other guests, Otter, Beaver), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guests | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guests | amod |
| 3 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Otter | det |
| 6 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 laugh | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 laugh | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 laugh | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 laugh | advmod |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 does | advmod |
| 14 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 does | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 laugh | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 does | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 chief | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 chief | cop |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chief | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the other guests | the Otter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent otter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not laugh in a quote | must | the Otter = otter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Beaver | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Otter | our chief | our nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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