Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 50
The people lamented, saying, “We shouldn’t have told the ‘Hell-diver,’ for he has killed himself from grief.”
Who acts: people, We · What happens: lament, say, not tell, kill · To what, where: Hell diver, Diver, grief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lamented | nsubj |
| 3 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lamented | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux |
| 10 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 told | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | aux |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 diver | det |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 diver | punct |
| 15 | Hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 diver | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hell | punct |
| 17 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 killed | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 killed | aux |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 told | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 killed | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 grief | case |
| 26 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 killed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamented | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | past | the people | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the people not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert in a quote | should · perfect | We | the Hell diver | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent diver=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Diver | grief | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer himself=Result |
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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