Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 116
Some old woman passed by and left some dry meat,” said he.
Who acts: old woman, bird · What happens: pass by, leave, say · To what, where: old woman, dry meat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, bird), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 woman | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 passed | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 meat | det |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meat | amod |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | some old woman not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | some old woman | some dry meat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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