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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

nsubjpunctpunctmarknsubjadvclpunctcompoundobjpunctpunctoblpunctappospunctappospunctpunctaclcaseoblpunctnsubjccomppunctconjpunctpunctmarkdetnsubjauxadvcladvmodmarkadvclobjpunctrootHePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTWhenSCONJyouPRONhearVERB‘PUNCTMeatPROPNbirdNOUN’PUNCT(PUNCTWiskePROPN·PUNCTdjakNOUN[PUNCT52NUM]PUNCT)PUNCTflyingVERBaboveADPyouPRON,PUNCTthatPRONmeansVERB‘PUNCTHurryVERB’PUNCT,PUNCTforSCONJtheDETWindigoPROPNisAUXcomingVERBbehindADVtoPARTcatchVERByouPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_25 meanspunct
4“"PUNCT_25 meanspunct
5WhenwhenSCONJ_7 hearmark
6youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs7 hearnsubj
7hearhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 meansadvcl
8‘'PUNCT_10 birdpunct
9MeatMeatPROPNNumber=Sing10 birdcompound
10birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing7 hearobj
11’'PUNCT_10 birdpunct
12((PUNCT_13 Wiskepunct
13WiskeWiskePROPNNumber=Sing7 hearobl
14··PUNCT_15 djakpunct
15djakdjakNOUNNumber=Sing13 Wiskeappos
16[[PUNCT_17 52punct
175252NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card15 djakappos
18]]PUNCT_17 52punct
19))PUNCT_17 52punct
20flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger15 djakacl
21aboveaboveADP_22 youcase
22youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs20 flyingobl
23,,PUNCT_7 hearpunct
24thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 meansnsubj
25meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saidccomp
26‘'PUNCT_27 Hurrypunct
27HurryhurryVERBVerbForm=Inf25 meansconj
28’'PUNCT_27 Hurrypunct
29,,PUNCT_34 comingpunct
30forforSCONJ_34 comingmark
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Windigodet
32WindigoWindigoPROPNNumber=Sing34 comingnsubj
33isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 comingaux
34comingcomeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part27 Hurryadvcl
35behindbehindADV_34 comingadvmod
36totoPART_37 catchmark
37catchcatchVERBVerbForm=Inf34 comingadvcl
38youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs37 catchobj
39..PUNCT_2 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastportagevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2hear in a quotepresentyouMeat birdWiske oblvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3fly in a quotegerunddjak not said hereabove youvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above you=Location
4mean in a quotepresentthatvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5hurry in a quoteinfinitivethat not said herevn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6come in a quotepresent · progressivethe Windigobehind propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7catch in a quoteto-infinitivethe Windigo not said hereyouvn 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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