Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 60
You watch and tell me when you see any Indians, if they should come in a canoe.
Who acts: You, Indians · What happens: watch, tell, see, come · To what, where: me, Indians, canoe · 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 (You, Indians), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 watch | nsubj |
| 2 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tell | cc |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 watch | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 see | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | advcl |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 Indians | det |
| 10 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 watch | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 canoe | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 canoe | det |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present | You | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | You not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | present | you | any Indians | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indian=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | should | Indians = indian | a canoe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location |
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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