Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 26
“Indeed, you are a great man, our brother-in-law, and can stay here and hunt and live with us,” said the old White Bear.
Who acts: you, old White Bear · What happens: be, stay, hunt, live, say · To what, where: great 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, old White Bear), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 man | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 man | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 law | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 law | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 in | punct |
| 15 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brother | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | conj |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hunt | cc |
| 22 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 live | cc |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hunt | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 live | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Bear | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Bear | amod |
| 32 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Bear | amod |
| 33 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a great man and our brother and law | our brother and law conj; indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stay in a quote | can | you not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt in a quote | present | you not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | you not said here | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the old White Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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