Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 16
He sang his song and told them, “You are going away to be gone until next spring, and I won’t see you for a long time, so I want to get up a dance for you all, before you go.”
Who acts: djak, You · What happens: sing, tell, go away, go, not see, want · To what, where: song, Ducks, you, dance · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 told | ccomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 gone | aux:pass |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 going | advcl |
| 17 | until | until | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spring | amod |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 23 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sang | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 want | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 want | advmod |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 want | nsubj |
| 34 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 get | mark |
| 36 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 want | xcomp |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 get | compound:prt |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 dance | det |
| 39 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 get | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 get | obl |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 44 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 46 go | mark |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 go | nsubj |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 want | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | djak | djak's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | djak not said here | Ducks = duck | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go away in a quote | present · progressive | You | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | You not said here | spring | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | not see in a quote | future | djak | you | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | djak | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | get up not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | djak not said here | a dance | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dance=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 8 | go in a quote | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | sing | djak | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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