Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 32
After he had been travelling all day and taken a few animals, he saw a bear that was half black and half white.
Who acts: man, bear · What happens: travel, take, see, be · To what, where: few animals, bear
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bear), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 travelling | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 travelling | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelling | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 travelling | aux |
| 5 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | advcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelling | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taken | cc |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 travelling | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 animals | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 animals | amod |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelling | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bear | det |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 black | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 black | cop |
| 20 | half | half | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 black | amod |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bear | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 white | cc |
| 23 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 24 white | advmod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 black | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past · perfect · progressive | man | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | participle | man not said here | a few animals | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | a bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a bear | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | a bear not said here | half property | tree rules |
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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