Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 49
Then Rabbit said, “Why don’t you go around and find his track?”.
Who acts: Rabbit, you · What happens: say, not go around, find · To what, where: track · 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 (Rabbit, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Rabbit | Rabbit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 6 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 go | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 8 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 go | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 track | nmod:poss |
| 15 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Rabbit | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not go around in a quote | present · do-support | you | around property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Lynx's track | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic |
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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