Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Algonquin Text., sentence 16
kaye′gaʻk·i‵nəge‵gon ogi·′gəcki‵t·on tci·a′nəmit·aʻgʷət·o‵tc He had everything so that it would answer him when he spoke to it;
Who acts: i, ‵, ogi · What happens: ‵, go, have, answer, speak · To what, where: nəge ‵, ogi, tci, everything, ‵, kaye ′ · 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 (i, ‵, ogi), 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 | kaye | kaye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ′ | compound |
| 2 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | gaʻk | gaʻk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ′ | appos |
| 4 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 6 ‵ | punct |
| 5 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ‵ | nsubj |
| 6 | ‵ | ‵ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ′ | acl:relcl |
| 7 | nəge | nəge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ‵ | compound |
| 8 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ‵ | obj |
| 9 | gon | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ‵ | advcl |
| 10 | ogi | ogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gon | obj |
| 11 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 13 gəcki | punct |
| 12 | ′ | ′ | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 gəcki | flat:foreign |
| 13 | gəcki | gəcki | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 gon | obj |
| 14 | ‵ | ‵ | PUNCT | _ | 15 t | punct |
| 15 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gəcki | conj |
| 16 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 18 tci | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tci | case |
| 18 | tci | tci | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gon | obl |
| 19 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 22 nəmit | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 nəmit | det |
| 21 | ′ | ′ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nəmit | amod |
| 22 | nəmit | nəmit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gon | parataxis |
| 23 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 24 aʻgʷət | punct |
| 24 | aʻgʷət | aʻgʷət | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nəmit | conj |
| 25 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 26 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 28 tc | case |
| 27 | ‵ | ‵ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 tc | nummod |
| 28 | tc | tc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl |
| 29 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 nəmit | parataxis |
| 31 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 answer | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 answer | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 answer | aux |
| 36 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | advcl |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 answer | obj |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 spoke | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 spoke | nsubj |
| 40 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 answer | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 spoke | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 ′ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‵ | present | i | nəge ‵ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | i not said here | ogi | tci | a ′ nəmit and aʻgʷət parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 3 | have | past | ‵ | everything | of ‵ tc | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | would | ogi | ‵ | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | ‵ | ogi | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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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