Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 146

But one, our youngest brother, was the last to be asked, and when he told his name Wiske·djak got angry and said, ‘What could you frighten?’

Who acts: one, djak, you · What happens: be, ask, tell, get, say, frighten · To what, where: name · 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 (one, djak, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 last	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 last	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brother	nmod:poss
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brother	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 last	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 last	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	13 asked	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	aux:pass
13	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 last	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 told	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 last	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 name	nmod:poss
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obj
21	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 name	appos
22	·	·	PUNCT	_	24 got	punct
23	djak	djak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 got	nsubj
24	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	conj
25	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 got	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 frighten	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	33 frighten	punct
30	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 frighten	obj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 frighten	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 frighten	nsubj
33	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 frighten	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 frighten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	one		last property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive · passive	one not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»
3	tell speech: assert	past	djak	djak's name		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	get	past	djak		angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	say speech: assert	past	djak not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	frighten	could	you		What obj	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus what=Experiencer
7	name		djak			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 146

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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 146