Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 79
They thought it might be good for their boys to know how to stay under water, and at last gave their consent.
Who acts: parents, it, boys · What happens: think, be, know, stay, give, consent · To what, where: water, consent, last · 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 (parents, it, boys), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 good | cop |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 boys | nmod:poss |
| 9 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 good | csubj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 stay | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | ccomp |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gave | obl |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 consent | nmod:poss |
| 23 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | parents = parent | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | might | it | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | parents's boys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stay | to-infinitive | water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location | |||||
| 5 | give | past | parents = parent not said here | parents's consent | last | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent consent=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 6 | consent | parents = parent | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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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