Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 54
Then the girls hid and told the trees, whenever Wolverine should come back and whistle for them, to answer him by whistling.
Who acts: girls, Wolverine · What happens: hide, tell, come back, whistle, answer · To what, where: trees, Wolverine · 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 (girls, Wolverine), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 come | advmod |
| 11 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 told | ccomp |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 whistle | cc |
| 16 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whistle | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 answer | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 answer | mark |
| 21 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 come | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 answer | obj |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 whistling | mark |
| 24 | whistling | whistle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 answer | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the girls | then | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the girls not said here | the trees | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come back | should | Wolverine | whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | whistle | infinitive | Wolverine not said here | for girls = girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | Wolverine | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | whistle | gerund | Wolverine not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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