Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 135
Then their grandmother would say to them, “Don’t swim in that lake.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: say, not swim · To what, where: boys, 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 say | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 say | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 say | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swim | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 swim | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swim | aux |
| 11 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 swim | aux |
| 12 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swim | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | boys's grandmother | boys = boy | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not swim in a quote | infinitive · do-support | boys's grandmother not said here | that lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory |
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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