Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 109
So young girls should not try always to get a nice-looking man, but take the man selected for them.
Who acts: young girls, man · What happens: not try, get, look, take, select · To what, where: looking man
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girls, man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 try | advmod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girls | amod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 try | advmod |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 try | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 11 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 looking | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 nice | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 selected | nsubj |
| 20 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 selected | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | should | young girls | always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | young girls not said here | a looking man | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | young girls not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | select | past | the man | for mittens = mitten | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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