Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 11
He said, “When you hear ‘Meat bird’ (Wiske·djak [52]) flying above you, that means ‘Hurry’, for the Windigo is coming behind to catch you.
Who acts: portage, you, djak, that, Windigo · What happens: say, hear, fly, mean, hurry, come · To what, where: Meat bird, you · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portage, you, djak, that), 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 | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 means | punct |
| 5 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 hear | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 means | advcl |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 9 | Meat | Meat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | compound |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obj |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Wiske | punct |
| 13 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hear | obl |
| 14 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 15 djak | punct |
| 15 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wiske | appos |
| 16 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 17 52 | punct |
| 17 | 52 | 52 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 djak | appos |
| 18 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 17 52 | punct |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 52 | punct |
| 20 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 djak | acl |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 flying | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hurry | punct |
| 27 | Hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 means | conj |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hurry | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 coming | punct |
| 30 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 coming | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Windigo | det |
| 32 | Windigo | Windigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 coming | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 coming | aux |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 Hurry | advcl |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 34 coming | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 catch | mark |
| 37 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 coming | advcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 catch | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | portage | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present | you | Meat bird | Wiske obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fly in a quote | gerund | djak not said here | above you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above you=Location | ||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | that | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hurry in a quote | infinitive | that not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the Windigo | behind property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | the Windigo not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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