Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 158
“Now,” said the old Partridge, “you will know better what Kuckuŋge·′sįs is now.”
Who acts: old Partridge, you, Kuckuŋge ′ sįs · What happens: say, know, be · 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 (old Partridge, you, Kuckuŋge ′ sįs), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Partridge | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Partridge | amod |
| 8 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 know | ccomp |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 better | obj |
| 16 | Kuckuŋge | Kuckuŋge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sįs | compound |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 16 Kuckuŋge | punct |
| 18 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sįs | compound |
| 19 | sįs | sįs | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 now | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 now | cop |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old Partridge | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Kuckuŋge ′ sįs | now property | tree rules |
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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