Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 80
Said they, “We will all go up and take Wiske·djak’s ducks and geese out of the sand and play a trick on him.”
Who acts: men, We · What happens: say, go up, take, play · To what, where: ducks, sand, trick · 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 (men, We), 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 go | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 djak | compound |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wiske | punct |
| 14 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ducks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 djak | case |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 geese | cc |
| 18 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ducks | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sand | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sand | det |
| 22 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 play | cc |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 trick | det |
| 26 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 play | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | men = man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go up in a quote | future | We | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | Wiske djak's ducks and geese | the sand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent duck=Theme out sand=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | play in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | a trick | on Wiske | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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