Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 16
I must beat that Windigo, because he will bother us all winter, and then we will starve, for I cannot hunt while staying at camp all the time, watching out for you and the children.”
Who acts: I, Windigo, we · What happens: beat, bother, starve, not hunt, stay, watch out · To what, where: Windigo, us, camp
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 (I, Windigo, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 beat | aux |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 Windigo | mark |
| 5 | Windigo | Windigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bother | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 bother | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bother | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bother | aux |
| 10 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beat | conj |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bother | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 winter | det |
| 13 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bother | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 starve | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 starve | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 starve | advmod |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 starve | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 starve | aux |
| 19 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beat | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hunt | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 hunt | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 hunt | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 hunt | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hunt | advmod |
| 25 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 starve | conj |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 staying | mark |
| 27 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 hunt | advcl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 camp | case |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 staying | obl |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 time | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 staying | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 watching | punct |
| 34 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 staying | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 watching | compound:prt |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 watching | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 children | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 children | det |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 you | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | must | I | Windigo | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location windigo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bother | future | Windigo | us | winter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | starve | future | we | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hunt | can | I | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stay | gerund | I not said here | camp | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at camp=Location | |||
| 6 | watch out | gerund | I not said here | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for 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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