Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 56
Now Wiske·djak had the power to make anything answer him when he spoke to it, no matter what it might be.
Who acts: Wiske djak, anything, djak · What happens: have, make, answer, speak · To what, where: power, anything, djak · 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 djak, anything, djak), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 djak | compound |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wiske | punct |
| 4 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 power | det |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | advcl |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answer | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 spoke | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answer | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 matter | punct |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 be | obj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 be | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 be | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 matter | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Wiske djak | the power | now | no matter obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | infinitive | anything not said here | djak | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | djak | power | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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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