Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 111
“Come, tie this bladder on your tail and swim further out in the deep water where it is cold and cool it for me.
Who acts: water · What happens: tie, swim, be · To what, where: bladder, deep water
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | _ | 4 tie | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tie | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tie | punct |
| 4 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bladder | det |
| 6 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tie | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tail | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tie | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swim | cc |
| 11 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tie | conj |
| 12 | further | further | ADV | _ | 13 out | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 swim | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swim | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 cold | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cold | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cold | cop |
| 21 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cool | cc |
| 23 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cold | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cold | nsubj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 cold | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie in a quote | infinitive | this bladder | on your tail | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient on tail=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | present | the deep water | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | water | for Wiske; cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | water not said here | tree rules |
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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