Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 9
The others agreed and went to attend the feast; but they asked him, “How big a piece of grease do you want?”
Who acts: others, big piece · What happens: agree, go, attend, ask, want · To what, where: feast, 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 (others, big piece), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attend | mark |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 piece | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 piece | punct |
| 17 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 big | advmod |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 piece | amod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 want | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 grease | case |
| 22 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 want | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 want | nsubj |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the others | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the others not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | the others not said here | the feast | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Goal | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | others = other | Otter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present · do-support | a big piece of grease | you nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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