Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 132
He saw him lying right on the edge, so he walked up slowly to him and then suddenly buzzed his wings, and Nenebuc jumped up and fell over the cliff.
Who acts: ′, father, Nenebuc · What happens: see, lie, walk up, buzz, jump up, fall · To what, where: father, edge, wings, cliff
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 (′, father, Nenebuc), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 lying | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lying | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 walked | compound:prt |
| 14 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buzzed | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 buzzed | advmod |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 buzzed | advmod |
| 20 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buzzed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 jumped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jumped | cc |
| 25 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 jumped | nsubj |
| 26 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 jumped | compound:prt |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fell | cc |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 jumped | conj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 cliff | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cliff | det |
| 32 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | ′ | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | father not said here | the edge | right property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | |||
| 3 | walk up | past | ′ | father | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 4 | buzz | past | ′ not said here | ′'s wings | then | suddenly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||
| 5 | jump up | past | Nenebuc | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | Nenebuc not said here | the cliff | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over cliff=Location |
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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