Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 188
“Hand me my axe,” said one of the Indians, “till I kill him.”
Who acts: one, I · What happens: hand, say, kill · To what, where: axe, me, djak · 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 (one, I), 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 | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 2 | Hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Hand | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 axe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hand | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Indians | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Indians | det |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 kill | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 kill | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in a quote | infinitive | my axe | me | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of the Indians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | present | I | djak | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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