Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 42
Although they had been gone only a short time, they turned back, and when they got home, they found that one of his sons was dead and that the family was waiting to bury him.”
Who acts: spirits, one, family · What happens: go, turn back, get, find, be, wait · To what, where: spirits, man
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, one, family), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 gone | aux:pass |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 turned | advcl |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 time | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 got | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | advcl |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 turned | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 dead | mark |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 dead | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sons | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sons | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dead | cop |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 found | advcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 waiting | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 waiting | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 family | det |
| 33 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 waiting | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 waiting | aux |
| 35 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 dead | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bury | mark |
| 37 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 waiting | xcomp |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bury | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · passive | spirits = spirit | time | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn back | past | spirits = spirit | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | past | spirits = spirit | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | find | past | spirits = spirit | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | one of man's sons | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wait | past · progressive | the family | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bury | to-infinitive | the family not said here | man | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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