Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 112
Don’t swim too fast and go easy or you might break the bladder and spill my grease.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not swim, go, break, spill · To what, where: bladder, grease
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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 swim | advmod |
| 3 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 swim | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 swim | conj |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 break | cc |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 break | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 break | aux |
| 12 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 easy | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bladder | det |
| 14 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 break | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spill | cc |
| 16 | spill | spill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 break | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grease | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swim | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not swim | imperative · do-support | you not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | easy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | might | you | the bladder | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bladder=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spill | infinitive | you not said here | my grease | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grease=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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