Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 99
When they saw him, one of the girls said, “He is a very ugly man, but we will go in his canoe and, when we get to the village, we’ll get rid of him.”
Who acts: canoes, one, Ciŋgibis, we · What happens: see, say, be, go, get · To what, where: Ciŋgibis, ugly man, canoe · 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 (canoes, one, Ciŋgibis, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 get | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 girls | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girls | det |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 man | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ugly | advmod |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 canoe | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 26 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 get | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 get | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 get | advmod |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 get | nsubj |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 village | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 village | det |
| 34 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 get | nsubj |
| 37 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 get | aux |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 39 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 get | xcomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rid | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 get | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | canoes = canoe | Ciŋgibis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the girls | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Ciŋgibis | a ugly man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | future | we | Ciŋgibis's canoe | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | present | we | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | future | we | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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