Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 143
“I’ll let her sleep and then there will be no danger of her being carried away tonight, as I am very sleepy with my weariness and cannot keep awake to watch her tonight.
Who acts: answer, stump, danger · What happens: 'll, let, sleep, be, carry away, not keep · To what, where: stump, danger · 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 (answer, stump, danger), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ll | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’ll | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ’ll | ccomp |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 be | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 be | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 be | expl |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sleep | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 danger | det |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 be | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 carried | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 carried | nmod:poss |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 carried | aux:pass |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 danger | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 carried | advmod |
| 19 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sleepy | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 sleepy | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sleepy | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sleepy | cop |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 sleepy | advmod |
| 25 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carried | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 weariness | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 28 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sleepy | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 keep | cc |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 keep | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 keep | advmod |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 sleepy | conj |
| 33 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keep | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 watch | mark |
| 35 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 awake | advcl |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 tonight | nmod:poss |
| 37 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 watch | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’ll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'll in a quote | present | answer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | answer not said here | stump | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | stump not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | future | no danger | there | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | carry away in a quote | gerund · passive | no danger not said here | tonight | danger nmod:poss; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | answer | with my weariness; sleepy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not keep in a quote | can | answer not said here | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | watch in a quote | to-infinitive | answer not said here | tonight | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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