Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 44
[39] Thought she to herself, when she saw the game-bag, “I wonder if he will show himself to be a good hunter.”
Who acts: 39, wife, otter · What happens: think, see, wonder, show, be · To what, where: wife, game bag, otter, good hunter · 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 (39, wife, otter), 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 | _ | 4 Thought | punct |
| 2 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Thought | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 39 | punct |
| 4 | Thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Thought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 Thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Thought | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bag | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 game | punct |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wonder | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wonder | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 wonder | nsubj |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 show | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 show | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 show | aux |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wonder | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 show | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 hunter | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hunter | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hunter | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hunter | amod |
| 29 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 show | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thought | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | 39 | wife | wife | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | wife | the game bag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bag=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | otter | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | show a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | otter | otter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | a good hunter | 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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