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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 136

The next morning the Indians came to the lake and broke the Beaver’s houses, and the big Beaver told the young ones, “When you see a dog passing, whistle.”

Who acts: Indians, big Beaver, you, dog · What happens: come, break, tell, see, pass · To what, where: lake, houses, young ones, dog, whistle · 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 (Indians, big Beaver, you, dog), 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

detamodobl:unmarkeddetnsubjcasedetoblccconjdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctccdetamodnsubjparataxisdetamodobjpunctpunctadvmodnsubjconjdetobjxcomppunctobjpunctpunctrootTheDETnextADJmorningNOUNtheDETIndiansPROPNcameVERBtoADPtheDETlakeNOUNandCCONJbrokeVERBtheDETBeaverPROPN’sPARThousesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETbigADJBeaverPROPNtoldVERBtheDETyoungADJonesNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTWhenADVyouPRONseeVERBaDETdogNOUNpassingVERB,PUNCTwhistleNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 morningdet
2nextnextADJDegree=Pos3 morningamod
3morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing6 cameobl:unmarked
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Indiansdet
5IndiansIndianPROPNNumber=Plur6 camensubj
6camecomeVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7totoADP_9 lakecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 lakedet
9lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing6 cameobl
10andandCCONJ_11 brokecc
11brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 cameconj
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Beaverdet
13BeaverBeaverPROPNNumber=Sing15 housesnmod:poss
14’s'sPART_13 Beavercase
15houseshouseNOUNNumber=Plur11 brokeobj
16,,PUNCT_21 toldpunct
17andandCCONJ_21 toldcc
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Beaverdet
19bigbigADJDegree=Pos20 Beaveramod
20BeaverBeaverPROPNNumber=Sing21 toldnsubj
21toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 cameparataxis
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 onesdet
23youngyoungADJDegree=Pos24 onesamod
24onesoneNOUNNumber=Plur21 toldobj
25,,PUNCT_29 seepunct
26“"PUNCT_29 seepunct
27WhenwhenADVPronType=Int29 seeadvmod
28youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs29 seensubj
29seeseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 toldconj
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 dogdet
31dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing29 seeobj
32passingpassVERBVerbForm=Ger29 seexcomp
33,,PUNCT_34 whistlepunct
34whistlewhistleNOUNNumber=Sing32 passingobj
35..PUNCT_6 camepunct
36”"PUNCT_6 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe Indiansthe lakemorningvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2breakpastthe Indians not said herethe Beaver's housesvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Patient
3tell speech: assertpastthe big Beaverthe young onesvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4see in a quotepresentyoua dogtree rules
5pass in a quotegerunda dog not said herewhistlevn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whistle=Trajectory

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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