Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 90
When they were on Abitibi river they drew near the big falls there without knowing it.
Who acts: Indians, Abitibi river · What happens: be, draw, know · To what, where: Abitibi river, big falls, Way
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 (Indians, Abitibi river), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 river | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 river | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | Abitibi | Abitibi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | compound |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 falls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 falls | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 falls | amod |
| 12 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 falls | advmod |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 knowing | mark |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drew | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knowing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Indians = indian | Abitibi river | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Abitibi river | the big falls | Indians = indian nsubj | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | Abitibi river not said here | Way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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