Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 28
So he went over to them and they said, “There is a beaver here and you must pull him up.”
Who acts: Otter, women, beaver, you · What happens: go over, say, be, pull up · To what, where: women, 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, women, beaver, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 beaver | det |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 is | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pull | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 pull | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pull | aux |
| 20 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pull | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 pull | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go over | past | Otter | women = woman | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | women = woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a beaver | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pull up in a quote | must | you | Otter | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |
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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