Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 90
The mother had agreed with the Iroquois that they were not to kill her if she didn’t tell her sons of their whereabouts.
Who acts: mother, Iroquois · What happens: agree, not kill, not tell · To what, where: mother, sons · 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 (mother, Iroquois), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Iroquois | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Iroquois | det |
| 7 | Iroquois | iroquois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 kill | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tell | advmod |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 kill | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sons | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 whereabouts | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 whereabouts | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 sons | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | the mother | with the Iroquois | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S_INF»: agent=Agent with iroquois=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not kill not said to happen | past | Iroquois = iroquoi | mother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | mother | mother's sons of Iroquois's whereabouts | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
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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