Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 56
“It may hurt you when I put this medicine in, but it will cure you, so don’t mind it.”
Who acts: matter, djak · What happens: hurt, put in, cure, not mind · To what, where: you, medicine, matter
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 (matter, djak), 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 hurt | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 put | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 medicine | det |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cure | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 cure | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cure | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cure | aux |
| 16 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurt | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 cure | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mind | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 mind | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 mind | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 mind | advmod |
| 22 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mind | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt in a quote | may | matter | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put in in a quote | past | djak | this medicine | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent medicine=Goal | ||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | future | matter | you | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source | ||||
| 4 | not mind in a quote | infinitive · do-support | matter | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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