Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 74
He showed the girls where to sleep and since the place where they were to sleep was not near him, they knew that he would not marry either of them.
Who acts: Woodpecker, girls · What happens: show, sleep, not be, know, not marry · To what, where: girls, either · 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, girls), 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 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 showed | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 sleep | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sleep | mark |
| 7 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 showed | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 place | cc |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleep | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sleep | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 him | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 him | advmod |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 marry | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 marry | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 marry | advmod |
| 28 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 marry | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 either | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Woodpecker | the girls | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Woodpecker not said here | the place conj | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | girls = girl | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | near Woodpecker | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | past | girls = girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not marry | would | Woodpecker | either of girls | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=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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