Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 113
“All right,” said the Muskrat, “I will do it for you and you will tell me how fast to go.”
Who acts: Muskrat, you · What happens: say, do, tell, go · To what, where: work, Muskrat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Muskrat, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Muskrat | det |
| 8 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | aux |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tell | iobj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 tell | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fast | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Muskrat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | the Muskrat = muskrat | work | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | you | the Muskrat = muskrat | fast property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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