Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 83
He was a good looking man, and as he passed them in his canoe, the girls said to him, “Put us in your canoe, you are going to get married sometime.”
Who acts: Duck, girls · What happens: look, be, pass, say, put, go · To what, where: good looking man, girls, canoe, Duck, us · 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 (Duck, 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 | 6 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 canoe | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Put | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Put | punct |
| 24 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | parataxis |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Put | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 canoe | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 28 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 Put | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 married | mark |
| 34 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 married | aux:pass |
| 35 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 going | xcomp |
| 36 | sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 married | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | Duck | a good looking man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | Duck | girls = girl | Duck's canoe | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in canoe=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the girls | Duck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | us | your canoe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme in canoe=Destination | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Duck | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Duck not said here | sometime property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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