Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 23
“Now, you try,” said they, “and if you can’t move it, you are a dead man.”
Who acts: you, Bears · What happens: try, say, not move, be · To what, where: rock, dead 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 (you, Bears), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 try | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 move | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 move | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 move | nsubj |
| 15 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 move | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 move | advmod |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 move | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 man | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 move | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present | you | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bears = bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not move a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | rock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | a dead man | tree rules |
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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