Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 160
And she, too, gave him a lynx bone and told him, as the other had done, that it would help him in time of need on his journey; and he started on again, doing the same at every lake, until it began to grow late in the day.
Who acts: snack, other, trip, man · What happens: give, tell, do, help, start on, begin · To what, where: lynx bone, man, same, lake · 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 (snack, other, trip, man), 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 | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bone | det |
| 9 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bone | compound |
| 10 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 told | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 done | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 help | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 need | case |
| 29 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | nmod |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 journey | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 journey | nmod:poss |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 need | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 started | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 started | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 started | nsubj |
| 36 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | parataxis |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 started | compound:prt |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 started | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 doing | punct |
| 40 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 started | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 same | det |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 doing | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 lake | case |
| 44 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 lake | det |
| 45 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 doing | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 began | punct |
| 47 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 49 began | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 began | nsubj |
| 49 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 started | conj |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 grow | mark |
| 51 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 began | xcomp |
| 52 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 grow | xcomp |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 day | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 day | det |
| 55 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 late | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | snack | a lynx bone | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | snack not said here | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | would | trip | man | time | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | start on | past | man | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | do | gerund | man not said here | the same | every lake | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | begin | past | trip | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | grow | to-infinitive | trip not said here | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | journey | man | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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