Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 39
Soon after they had begun trapping, they found a dwarfed beaver in one of the traps.
Who acts: spirits · What happens: begin, find, dwarf · To what, where: trapping, dwarfed beaver
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 (spirits), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 found | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 begun | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begun | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begun | aux |
| 5 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 found | advcl |
| 6 | trapping | trapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begun | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 begun | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beaver | det |
| 11 | dwarfed | dwarf | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 beaver | amod |
| 12 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 found | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 traps | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 traps | det |
| 17 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · perfect | spirits = spirit | trapping | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trapping=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | past | spirits = spirit | a dwarfed beaver | in one of the traps; soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Topic | |||
| 3 | dwarf | participle | 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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