Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 168
He said to them, “If you don’t get some beaver for me, I’ll eat both of you.”
Who acts: beaver · What happens: say, get, eat · To what, where: Lynx, beaver, both · 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 (beaver), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 beaver | det |
| 13 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 eat | aux |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 get | conj |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 both | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | beaver | Lynx | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · do-support | some beaver | for beaver | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme for i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | future | beaver | both of you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient |
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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