Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 77
During the night he talked with the brother and told him that he would show them how he could stay under water if they would give him the girl.
Who acts: Ciŋgəbis, brothers · What happens: talk, tell, show, stay, give · To what, where: Ciŋgəbis, brothers, water, girl · 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, brothers), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 talked | nsubj |
| 5 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talked | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 show | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 show | obj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 stay | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stay | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stay | aux |
| 20 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 show | ccomp |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stay | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | aux |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 stay | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | iobj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | Ciŋgəbis | night | with the brother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Ciŋgəbis not said here | Ciŋgəbis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | would | Ciŋgəbis | brothers = brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stay | could | Ciŋgəbis | water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location | ||||
| 5 | give a condition, not said to happen | would | brothers = brother | the girl | Ciŋgəbis iobj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient girl=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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