Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 88
But the only answer he got was, “No,” and there he stayed.
Who acts: answer, only answer · What happens: get, be, stay · To what, where: only answer
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 (answer, only answer), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 was | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 answer | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answer | amod |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answer | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 stayed | punct |
| 10 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 there | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 No | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 No | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 there | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stayed | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stayed | nsubj |
| 16 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 was | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | answer | the only answer not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the only answer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stay | past | answer | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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