Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 88
Once long ago a war party of Iroquois came north into this country to fight the Indians at Abitibi.
Who acts: war party · What happens: come, fight · To what, where: country, Indians, Abitibi
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 (war party), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 party | compound |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Iroquois | case |
| 8 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 party | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | north | north | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Indians | det |
| 17 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 fight | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Abitibi | case |
| 19 | Abitibi | Abitibi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a war party of Iroquois | this country | ago, north property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | a war party of Iroquois not said here | the Indians | Abitibi | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Co-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. 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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