Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 27
Then the old Bear told him, after a while, that he had better go and hunt, or he would grow lonesome in his new life.
Who acts: old Bear, trick · What happens: tell, have, go, hunt, grow · To what, where: trick, lonesome, new life · 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 (old Bear, trick), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bear | amod |
| 4 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 while | punct |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | conj |
| 15 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 had | advmod |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hunt | cc |
| 18 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grow | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 grow | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grow | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grow | aux |
| 23 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | conj |
| 24 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 life | amod |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grow | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old Bear | trick | then; while | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | past | trick | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | trick not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hunt | infinitive | trick not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | would | trick | lonesome | trick's new life | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lonesome=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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