Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 101
So when the Indians did come, I thought I would leave you to do your own watching.”
Who acts: Indians, I, you · What happens: come, think, leave, do, watch · To what, where: you, own · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, I, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Indians | det |
| 4 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | advcl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leave | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 own | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 do | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | the Indians | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | would | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | your own | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | watch | gerund | you not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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