Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 4
If you only knew enough to keep still like the rest of us, it would be all right, but you had better stay home.”
Who acts: you, rest · What happens: know, keep, be, stay
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 (you, rest), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 knew | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stay | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 knew | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knew | xcomp |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 keep | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 rest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 us | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 right | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 right | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 right | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 right | advmod |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 us | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stay | aux |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 had | xcomp |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 stay | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | you | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | still | like the rest of us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | would | rest | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay | past | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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