Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 144
And the old woman gave him a mess of corn and said, “My dear grandchild, it is very hard where you are going.
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: give, say, be, go, mess · To what, where: mess, man, corn · 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 (old woman, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mess | det |
| 8 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 corn | case |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mess | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandchild | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 grandchild | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grandchild | amod |
| 17 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hard | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hard | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hard | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 hard | advmod |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grandchild | advcl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 going | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 hard | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old woman | a mess of corn | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient mess=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | My dear grandchild ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the old woman not said here | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mess | corn | nom mess «state transitive»: of=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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