Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 116
Now Ciŋgəbis suspected some trick and told his wife not to go to the dance.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis · What happens: suspect, tell, not go · To what, where: trick, wife, 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 suspected | advmod |
| 2 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | nsubj |
| 3 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suspected | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suspected | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 go | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dance | det |
| 15 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | past | Ciŋgəbis | some trick | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent trick=Attribute | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Ciŋgəbis not said here | Ciŋgəbis's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_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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