Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 13
Indeed, nobody ever wanted to kill him, even though he was causing so much mischief, because the people liked to have him around.
Who acts: nobody, djak, people · What happens: want, kill, cause, like, have around · To what, where: djak, much mischief
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, djak, people), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 wanted | advmod |
| 5 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 causing | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 causing | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 causing | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 causing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 causing | aux |
| 14 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wanted | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mischief | amod |
| 17 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 causing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 liked | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 liked | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 liked | nsubj |
| 22 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wanted | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 liked | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | around | around | ADV | _ | 24 have | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | nobody | ever | indeed property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | nobody not said here | djak | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | past · progressive | djak | much mischief | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mischief=Patient | ||||
| 4 | like | past | the people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have around not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people not said here | djak | around property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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