Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 108

He told them that he would give up his new wife and her family if they would succeed in getting her away from him unknown to him.

Who acts: Wiske, mussels · What happens: tell, give up, succeed, get · To what, where: mussels, new wife, wife · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske, mussels), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 give	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 give	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wife	amod
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 family	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 family	nmod:poss
14	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	conj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 succeed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 succeed	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 succeed	aux
18	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	advcl
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 getting	mark
20	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 succeed	advcl
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 getting	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	20 getting	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 away	obl
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 getting	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 unknown	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Wiske		mussels = mussel		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give up	would	Wiske	Wiske's new wife and wife's family			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Source
3	succeed a condition, not said to happen	would	mussels = mussel				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	gerund	mussels = mussel not said here	wife		away, unknown property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/7/108/

🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 108