Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 172
Said he to the rocks, “You will hold on to these scabs.
Who acts: Wiske, rocks · What happens: say, hold on · To what, where: rocks · 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 (Wiske, rocks), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 rocks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rocks | det |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 hold | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 scabs | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 scabs | det |
| 14 | scabs | scab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hold | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wiske | the rocks | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rock=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold on in a quote | future | the rocks = rock | to this scabs | 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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