Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 5
[45] He said to himself, “When they hear this funny thing, they will laugh.”
Who acts: Lynx, suos · What happens: say, hear, laugh · To what, where: 45, Lynx, funny thing · 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 (Lynx, suos), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 45 | punct |
| 2 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 said | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 45 | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 10 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 hear | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 laugh | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hear | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laugh | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 laugh | aux |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lynx | 45 | Lynx | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present | suos = suo | this funny thing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | laugh in a quote | future | suos = suo | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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