--- title: “I’ll let her sleep and then there will be no danger of her being ca… — Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin… · tree and pragmatics description: “I’ll let her sleep and then there will be no danger of her being carried away tonight, as I am very sleepy with my weariness and cannot keep awake to watch her tonight. Who acts: answer, stump, danger. 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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 (answer, stump, danger), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66509:7:143 # text = “I’ll let her sleep and then there will be no danger of her being carried away tonight, as I am very sleepy with my weariness and cannot keep awake to watch her tonight. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ll 'll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 14 of of SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 weariness weariness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 tonight tonight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **'ll** *in a quote* | present | answer | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | answer *not said here* | stump | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | infinitive | stump *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | future | no danger | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **carry away** *in a quote* | gerund · passive | | no danger *not said here* | | | tonight | danger *nmod:poss*; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | answer | | | | | with my weariness; sleepy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **keep** *in a quote* | can | answer *not said here* | | | | | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **watch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | answer *not said here* | | | | tonight | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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. 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