Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 175
He said, “If you don’t get some beaver, I’ll kill you tonight.”
Who acts: beaver, you · What happens: say, not get, kill · To what, where: beaver, you · 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, you), 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 5 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kill | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 beaver | det |
| 11 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | beaver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | some beaver | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beaver=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | future | beaver | you | tonight | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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