Ojibwa myths and tales, Wintigoes (giants)., sentence 5
He said to his wife “The Wintigo is coming to-night, and is going to eat us, and if my dream fails we shall be eaten by the Wintigo.”
Who acts: man, Wintigo, dream, my · What happens: say, come, go, eat, fail, dream · To what, where: wife, us, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Wintigoes (giants).. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Wintigo, dream, my), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 wife | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wintigo | det |
| 8 | Wintigo | Wintigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 going | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 coming | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eaten | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eaten | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 fails | mark |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dream | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fails | nsubj |
| 26 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 eaten | advcl |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 eaten | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 eaten | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 eaten | aux:pass |
| 30 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 said | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 Wintigo | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Wintigo | det |
| 33 | Wintigo | Wintigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 eaten | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 Wintigo | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Wintigo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | man's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the Wintigo | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Wintigo not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Wintigo not said here | us | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | my dream | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | shall · passive | the Wintigo | we | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | dream in a quote | my | nom dream «cognition 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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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