Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 19
[54] Then Windigo came there and Gitcikwe′we said to his wife, “We will clinch him and take him away out west where he came from.”
Who acts: Windigo, Gitcikwe ′, We · What happens: come, say, clinch, take away · To what, where: 54, wife, Windigo · 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 (Windigo, Gitcikwe ′, 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 2 | 54 | 54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 54 | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 5 | Windigo | Windigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 9 | Gitcikwe | Gitcikwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ′ | compound |
| 10 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clinch | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 clinch | punct |
| 18 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 clinch | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 clinch | aux |
| 20 | clinch | clinch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 clinch | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 clinch | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 west | advmod |
| 27 | west | west | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 came | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 take | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 clinch | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 clinch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Windigo | 54 | there | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gitcikwe ′ | Windigo's wife | we nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | clinch in a quote | future | We | Windigo | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take away in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | Windigo | away, west property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | Windigo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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