Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 19
When he reached the starting point, the Bears said, “You seem to be a pretty good man; but there are still more tricks for you to perform.
Who acts: One, Bears, You, more tricks · What happens: reach, say, seem, be, perform · To what, where: starting point, good man · 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 (One, Bears, You, more tricks), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 5 | starting | starting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 point | compound |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bears | det |
| 9 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seem | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seem | nsubj |
| 14 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 man | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 19 good | advmod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seem | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 are | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 are | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 are | expl |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 tricks | amod |
| 27 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 are | nsubj |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 perform | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 perform | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 perform | mark |
| 31 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 tricks | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | One | the starting point | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bears | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | a good man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | does in a quote | present | more tricks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | perform in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=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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