Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 60
The girls looked at this and said, “The person who lives here must be very clean; we have never seen such a clean house.”
Who acts: girls, person, we · What happens: look, say, live, be, not see · To what, where: this, clean house · 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, person, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 looked | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clean | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 clean | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clean | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lives | nsubj |
| 13 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 person | acl:relcl |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 lives | advmod |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 clean | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 clean | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 clean | advmod |
| 18 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 24 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 house | det:predet |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 house | amod |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the girls | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girls not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | the person | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | the person | clean property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | present · perfect | we | such clean house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
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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