Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 50
One time he had some kind of a dispute with them and they would not give in to him.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, people · What happens: have, not give in · To what, where: kind, 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, people), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dispute | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dispute | det |
| 9 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kind | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dispute | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 give | advmod |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 give | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 give | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ciŋgəbis | some kind of a dispute with people | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | |||
| 2 | not give in | would | people | Ciŋgəbis | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
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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