Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 65
Said they, “We will go to Big Fisher lake, where the Big Fisher lives.”
Who acts: people, We, Big Fisher · What happens: say, go, live · To what, where: Big Fisher 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 (people, We, Big Fisher), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 5 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 9 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | compound |
| 10 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | compound |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lives | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fisher | det |
| 15 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fisher | flat |
| 16 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lake | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | We | Big Fisher lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | the Big Fisher | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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