Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 9
“Oh, that’s all right,” said the first one, “I would like to sleep with the white star.
Who acts: that, first one, I · What happens: be, say, like, sleep · 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 (that, first one, I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 right | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 right | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 right | advmod |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 like | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 like | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 like | aux |
| 18 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 like | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 star | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 star | det |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 star | amod |
| 24 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sleep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | with the white star | 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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