Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 72
He brought in two nice beavers which belonged to him, and gave one to the girls, saying, “You can have this.”
Who acts: Woodpecker, two nice beavers, You · What happens: bring, belong, give, say, have · To what, where: Woodpecker, one, girls, this · 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 (Woodpecker, two nice beavers, You), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 beavers | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 beavers | nummod |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beavers | amod |
| 6 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 belonged | nsubj |
| 8 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beavers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 belonged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 girls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girls | det |
| 17 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gave | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Woodpecker | in two nice beavers | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | two nice beavers | Woodpecker | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Woodpecker not said here | one | the girls | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to girl=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Woodpecker not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | can | You | this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
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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