Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 87
Now, when Aniwɔ·ye appeared Big Fisher said to the people, “We will go to meet him.
Who acts: Aniwɔ, We · What happens: appear, say, go, meet · To what, where: Big Fisher, people, Aniwɔ · 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 (Aniwɔ, We), 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 | 10 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | mark |
| 4 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 8 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Fisher | flat |
| 9 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 16 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 go | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 meet | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Aniwɔ | Big Fisher | ye nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fisher=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the people | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | Aniwɔ | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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