Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 24
One morning the old woman told the girls, “If you want to go down from where you came from, we will let you down, but get to work and gather roots to make a string-made rope, twisted.
Who acts: old woman, girls, we · What happens: tell, want, go down, come, let down, get · To what, where: girls, roots, made rope · 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 (old woman, girls, we), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girls | det |
| 8 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 11 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 want | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 want | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 where | case |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 came | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | aux |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 get | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 get | cc |
| 30 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 work | case |
| 32 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 get | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gather | cc |
| 34 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 get | conj |
| 35 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gather | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 gather | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 rope | det |
| 39 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 string | punct |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 rope | amod |
| 42 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 twisted | punct |
| 44 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 rope | amod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old woman | the girls | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the girls = girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go down not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the girls = girl not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | past | the girls = girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let down in a quote | future | we | the girls = girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | infinitive | to work result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result | |||||
| 7 | gather in a quote | present | roots | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | |||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a made rope | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product | |||||
| 9 | make in a quote | participle | string compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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/pg66509/14/24/