Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 110
The old people tell them this story for a lesson, lest they lose a good man, though not so handsome, to get a “stinker.”
Who acts: old people, people · What happens: tell, lose, get · To what, where: story, mittens, good man, stinker · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 lesson | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lesson | det |
| 10 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lose | punct |
| 12 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 14 lose | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lose | nsubj |
| 14 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lose | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 handsome | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 handsome | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 handsome | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 handsome | advmod |
| 22 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lose | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stinker | det |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 stinker | punct |
| 28 | stinker | stinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the old people | this story | mittens = mitten | for a lesson | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | lose | present | people | a good man | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the old people not said here | a stinker | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stinker=Stimulus |
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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