Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 92
When she knew they were nearing the falls she slowed up so that the flotilla of canoes became bunched.
Who acts: woman, river · What happens: know, near, slow up, bunch · To what, where: falls, flotilla · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woman, 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 | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nearing | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nearing | aux |
| 6 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 falls | det |
| 8 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nearing | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slowed | nsubj |
| 10 | slowed | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 falls | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 slowed | compound:prt |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 19 bunched | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 bunched | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flotilla | det |
| 15 | flotilla | flotilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bunched | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 canoes | case |
| 17 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flotilla | nmod |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bunched | aux:pass |
| 19 | bunched | bunch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 slowed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | near | past · progressive | river | the falls | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slow up | past | woman | the falls not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bunch | past · passive | the flotilla of canoes | 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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