Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 124
The old woman told her sons to keep Ciŋgəbis well supplied with the drink and not to let him leave until late.
Who acts: old woman, Ciŋgəbis · What happens: tell, keep, supply, not let, leave · To what, where: sons, Ciŋgəbis · 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 woman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbi | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 supplied | advmod |
| 11 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Ciŋgəbis | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 drink | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drink | det |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 let | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 let | mark |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 keep | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | until | until | ADP | _ | 22 late | case |
| 22 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 leave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the old woman | woman's sons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | Ciŋgəbis | with the drink | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ciŋgəbi=Theme | |||
| 3 | supply | participle | Ciŋgəbis not said here | well property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not let | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | Ciŋgəbis | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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