Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 157
As before, he ate a little snack of corn and the old woman said to him, “Where you are going will be a very hard trip for you.
Who acts: man, little snack, going · What happens: eat, say, go, be · To what, where: man, hard trip · 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 (man, little snack, going), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 before | case |
| 2 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 ate | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 before | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snack | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snack | amod |
| 8 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 corn | case |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snack | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 woman | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corn | conj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ate | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 going | punct |
| 20 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 going | advmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 trip | csubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 trip | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 trip | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trip | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 hard | advmod |
| 28 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 trip | amod |
| 29 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | parataxis |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 trip | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | man | before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a little snack of corn and the old woman | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | future | going | a hard trip | for man | 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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