Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 153
So nowadays the Indians tell the young boys neither to talk about the Beavers, nor the prospects of a hunt before attacking a beaver colony, lest the Muskrat hear them and tell the Beaver.
Who acts: Indians, Muskrat · What happens: tell, talk, attack, hear, prospect · To what, where: prospects, young boys, beaver colony, Indians, Beaver, hunt · 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, Muskrat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 2 | nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 5 tell | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obj |
| 9 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 11 talk | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 Beavers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Beavers | det |
| 14 | Beavers | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 talk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prospects | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 prospects | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prospects | det |
| 18 | prospects | prospect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hunt | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hunt | det |
| 21 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prospects | nmod |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 attacking | mark |
| 23 | attacking | attack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 tell | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 colony | det |
| 25 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 colony | compound |
| 26 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attacking | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hear | punct |
| 28 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 31 hear | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Muskrat | det |
| 30 | Muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hear | nsubj |
| 31 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hear | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tell | cc |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hear | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Beaver | det |
| 36 | Beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tell | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Indians | the prospects of a hunt | the young boys | nowadays property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | about the Beavers; neither property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about beaver=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attack | gerund | the Indians not said here | a beaver colony | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | the Muskrat | Indians = indian | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the Muskrat not said here | the Beaver | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beaver=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | prospect | a hunt | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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