Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 73
But if you are, you cannot marry the girl, because you have another wife.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not marry, have · To what, where: girl, wife
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 marry | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 are | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 are | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 marry | advmod |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 marry | conj |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not marry | can | you | the girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | you | another wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
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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