Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 15
We heard tell of him going about doing mischief.
Who acts: We, binʻ · What happens: tell, go, do · To what, where: mischief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Algonquin Text.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, binʻ), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | heard | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 going | mark |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 doing | mark |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | We | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | go | gerund | binʻ | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | gerund | binʻ not said here | mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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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