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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 111

At last the old mother-in-law said she had a plan, and told everyone in the family to help her get up a big dance and invite all the people to come.

Who acts: old mother, mother, people · What happens: say, have, tell, help, get up, invite · To what, where: last, plan, everyone, family, mother, big dance · 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 (old mother, mother, people), 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

caseobldetamodnsubjpunctcasepunctnmodnsubjccompdetobjpunctccconjobjcasedetoblmarkadvclobjxcompcompound:prtdetamodobjccconjdet:predetdetobjmarkxcomppunctrootAtADPlastADJtheDEToldADJmotherNOUN-PUNCTinADP-PUNCTlawNOUNsaidVERBshePRONhadVERBaDETplanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoldVERBeveryonePRONinADPtheDETfamilyNOUNtoPARThelpVERBherPRONgetVERBupADPaDETbigADJdanceNOUNandCCONJinviteVERBallDETtheDETpeopleNOUNtoPARTcomeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos10 saidobl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 motherdet
4oldoldADJDegree=Pos5 motheramod
5mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
6--PUNCT_9 lawpunct
7ininADP_9 lawcase
8--PUNCT_7 inpunct
9lawlawNOUNNumber=Sing5 mothernmod
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 hadnsubj
12hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidccomp
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 plandet
14planplanNOUNNumber=Sing12 hadobj
15,,PUNCT_17 toldpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 toldcc
17toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidconj
18everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot17 toldobj
19ininADP_21 familycase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 familydet
21familyfamilyNOUNNumber=Sing17 toldobl
22totoPART_23 helpmark
23helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf17 toldadvcl
24hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 helpobj
25getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf23 helpxcomp
26upupADP_25 getcompound:prt
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 dancedet
28bigbigADJDegree=Pos29 danceamod
29dancedanceNOUNNumber=Sing25 getobj
30andandCCONJ_31 invitecc
31inviteinviteVERBVerbForm=Inf25 getconj
32allallDETPronType=Tot34 peopledet:predet
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 peopledet
34peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur31 inviteobj
35totoPART_36 comemark
36comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf31 invitexcomp
37..PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe old mother in lawlastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2havepastmothera planvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient
3tell speech: assertpastthe old mother in law not said hereeveryonethe familyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
4helpto-infinitivethe old mother in law not said heremothervn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5get upinfinitivemother not said herea big dancevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dance=Stimulus
6inviteinfinitivemother not said hereall peoplevn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
7come not said to happento-infinitiveall people not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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