Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 78
One of the old women said before she died, “I believe you hit me by mistake.”
Who acts: old women, Ayas, you · What happens: say, die, believe, hit · To what, where: old women · 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 women, Ayas, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 said | ccomp |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 women | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 died | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 died | nsubj |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 hit | nsubj |
| 15 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hit | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 mistake | case |
| 18 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hit | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old women | One ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Ayas | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | believe in a quote | present | the old women = woman | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hit in a quote | past | you | the old women = woman | by mistake | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme by mistake=Destination |
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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