Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 128
They said, “That’s a good lake to drive the beaver, as it’s all rocky and they can’t escape.
Who acts: companions, That, thunder · What happens: say, be, drive, not escape · To what, where: good lake, beaver · 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 (companions, That, thunder), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lake | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lake | punct |
| 5 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 lake | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lake | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lake | amod |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drive | mark |
| 11 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lake | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beaver | det |
| 13 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drive | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rocky | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 rocky | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rocky | nsubj |
| 17 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 rocky | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 rocky | advmod |
| 19 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 said | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 escape | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 escape | nsubj |
| 22 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 escape | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 escape | advmod |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rocky | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | companions = companion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | a good lake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive in a quote | to-infinitive | companions = companion not said here | the beaver | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | thunder | all, rocky property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not escape in a quote | can | companions = companion | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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