Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 81
He was a young man and he tried to get his neighbour’s daughter to marry him, but she wouldn’t have him, saying that he was not good enough.
Who acts: number, snow · What happens: be, try, get, marry, not have, say · To what, where: young man, daughter, number · 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 (number, snow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 marry | mark |
| 16 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 get | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marry | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 have | advmod |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 man | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saying | punct |
| 26 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 have | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 good | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 good | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 good | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 good | advmod |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 saying | ccomp |
| 32 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 31 good | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | number | a young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | past | number | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | number not said here | number's neighbour's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | number not said here | number | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not have | would | snow | number | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | snow not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is | past | number | enough, good property | tree rules |
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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