Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 65
When he saw her all dressed up in fine clothes, new and beaded, he wanted to marry her, and asked her parents for her.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, girl · What happens: see, dress up, bead, want, marry, ask · To what, where: fine clothes, girl, parents · 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, girl), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wanted | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 dressed | advmod |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 dressed | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 clothes | case |
| 9 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 dressed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 new | punct |
| 12 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clothes | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beaded | cc |
| 14 | beaded | bead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 new | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 marry | mark |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wanted | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 asked | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Ciŋgəbis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dress up | past | girl | fine clothes | all property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | bead | participle | girl not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 4 | want | past | Ciŋgəbis | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Ciŋgəbis not said here | girl's parents | for girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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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