Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 18
Then he said, “Now, let us go inside and have our good time,” and he opened the door and they all went in.
Who acts: lot, us, Ducks · What happens: say, let, go, have, open, go in · To what, where: us, door · 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 (lot, us, Ducks), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 let | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Now | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | conj |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 time | nmod:poss |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 went | advmod |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | lot | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | open | past | lot | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go in | past | Ducks = duck | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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