Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 3
Now the people told the Otter this time, “You must not come; you never keep your mouth shut; you always laugh.
Who acts: people, Otter · What happens: tell, not come, not keep, laugh · To what, where: Otter, mouth · 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 (people, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Otter | det |
| 6 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 keep | advmod |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 laugh | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 laugh | nsubj |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 laugh | advmod |
| 25 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the people | the Otter | now; time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent otter=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not come in a quote | must | the Otter = otter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not keep in a quote | present | the Otter = otter | your mouth | shut property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme | |||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | present | the Otter = otter | always property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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