Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 116
“But it looks cloudy and I am afraid of the lightning, so you must tell me if it thunders while we are crossing.”
Who acts: et, Snake, you, we · What happens: look, be, tell, thunder, cross · To what, where: Snake · 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 (et, Snake, you, we), 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 | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 looks | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | advcl |
| 5 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 afraid | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloudy | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lightning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lightning | det |
| 12 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afraid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 tell | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | aux |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 thunders | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thunders | nsubj |
| 21 | thunders | thunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 crossing | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 crossing | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 crossing | aux |
| 25 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 thunders | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | et | cloudy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Snake = snake | of the lightning; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | must | you | the Snake = snake | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | thunder a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | et | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cross in a quote | present · progressive | we | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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