Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 182
Suddenly he remembered about the skull on his head and said, “If the people see me, they might think that I’m a bear and try to kill me.”
Who acts: name, people · What happens: remember, say, see, think, be, try · To what, where: head, name, bear · 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 (name, people), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 skull | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skull | det |
| 6 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remembered | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remembered | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 see | nsubj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 ’m | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ’m | nsubj |
| 25 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | ccomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bear | det |
| 27 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ’m | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 try | cc |
| 29 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 ’m | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 kill | mark |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 try | xcomp |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | name | name's head | about the skull; suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | name not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | the people | name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | might | people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | name | a bear | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bear=Theme | ||||
| 6 | try in a quote | infinitive | name not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | name not said here | name | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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