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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 broke | cc |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Beaver | det |
| 13 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 houses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Beaver | case |
| 15 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 broke | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Beaver | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Beaver | amod |
| 20 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ones | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 see | punct |
| 27 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 see | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 see | nsubj |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dog | det |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 see | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 whistle | punct |
| 34 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 passing | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Indians | the lake | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | break | past | the Indians not said here | the Beaver's houses | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the big Beaver | the young ones | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | you | a dog | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | gerund | a dog not said here | whistle | vn 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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