Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 120
Ciŋgəbis did not want to go to the dance at first, but everybody coaxed him until he started.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, everybody · What happens: not want, go, coax, start · To what, where: dance, Ciŋgəbis
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, everybody), 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 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dance | det |
| 9 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 coaxed | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 coaxed | cc |
| 14 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 coaxed | nsubj |
| 15 | coaxed | coax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 coaxed | obj |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 started | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 started | nsubj |
| 19 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coaxed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | Ciŋgəbis | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | the dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | coax | past | everybody | Ciŋgəbis | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | start | past | Ciŋgəbis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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