Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 10
The Otter replied, “Bring me a piece the size of my forearm.”
Who acts: Otter · What happens: reply, bring · To what, where: Otter · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Otter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Otter | det |
| 2 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bring | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bring | punct |
| 6 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Bring | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 piece | det |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bring | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 size | det |
| 11 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bring | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 forearm | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forearm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forearm | forearm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 size | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bring | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Otter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the Otter = otter | a piece obj; the size of my forearm obj | tree rules |
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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