Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 30
He kept doing this the third, fourth, and fifth mornings, until there were Nenebuc and his four brothers all sitting under the dish.
Who acts: cloud, Nenebuc · What happens: keep, do, be, sit · To what, where: this, dish
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 (cloud, 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 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 doing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 third | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 doing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fourth | punct |
| 8 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 third | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mornings | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mornings | cc |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mornings | amod |
| 12 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kept | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 were | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 were | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sitting | advcl |
| 17 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 were | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brothers | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 brothers | nummod |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Nenebuc | conj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 dish | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dish | det |
| 26 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | cloud | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | cloud not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | Nenebuc and cloud's four brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | cloud not said here | the dish | all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under dish=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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