Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 20
“Now,” said he, “you must obey the rule of this dance and do whatever you are told when you hear the order.”
Who acts: lot, you, dance · What happens: say, obey, do, tell, hear, rule · To what, where: rule, you, order · 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, you, dance), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obey | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 obey | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 obey | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 obey | aux |
| 11 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rule | det |
| 13 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obey | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dance | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 dance | det |
| 16 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rule | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obey | conj |
| 19 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 told | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 told | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | aux:pass |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 do | ccomp |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 hear | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 hear | nsubj |
| 25 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 told | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 order | det |
| 27 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hear | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | lot | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | must | you | the rule of this dance | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | you | whatever obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient whatever=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | present | you | the order | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | rule in a quote | this dance | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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