Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 115
She sent a special invitation to Ciŋgəbis and his wife and told her sons to try to get him to come.
Who acts: mother, Ciŋgəbis · What happens: send, tell, try, get, come · To what, where: special invitation, Ciŋgəbis, sons · 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 (mother, Ciŋgəbis), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 invitation | det |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 invitation | amod |
| 5 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Ciŋgəbis | case |
| 7 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invitation | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wife | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ciŋgəbis | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 try | mark |
| 16 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 try | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 get | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | mother | a special invitation | Ciŋgəbis and Ciŋgəbis's wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to ciŋgəbis=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | mother not said here | mother's sons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | Ciŋgəbis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | vn 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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