Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 7
One of these girls asked the other, “With what star would you like to sleep, the white one or the red one?”
Who acts: One, star · What happens: ask, like, sleep · To what, where: other · 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 (One, star), 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 | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 girls | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asked | obl |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | With | with | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 asked | obl |
| 12 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 like | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 like | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sleep | mark |
| 17 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | parataxis |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 one | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | One | the other | of this girls; what obl; the white one or the red one parataxis | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | like in a quote | would | star | you nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | star not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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