Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 70
At last the old woman said, “Ayas·e must have passed; somebody told us that Ayas·e was going to pass.
Who acts: last old woman, Ayas, somebody, e · What happens: say, pass, tell, go · To what, where: Ayas, e, us · 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 (last old woman, Ayas, somebody, e), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ayas | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ayas | punct |
| 9 | Ayas | Aya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 11 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 passed | aux |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Ayas | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 going | mark |
| 20 | Ayas | Aya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 e | nmod:poss |
| 21 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ayas | punct |
| 22 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 told | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pass | mark |
| 26 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 going | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the last old woman | Ayas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent aya=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass in a quote | must · perfect · passive | Ayas not said here | e | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | somebody | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past · progressive | Ayas's e | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | to-infinitive | Ayas's e not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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