Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 47
Soon Nenebuc began growing larger and he thought it strange that he had not been sent out into the world like his brothers, so he asked his grandfather for what reason he had kept him.
Who acts: Nenebuc, grandfather, reason · What happens: begin, grow, think, not send out, ask, keep · To what, where: story, grandfather, world · 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 (Nenebuc, grandfather, reason), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 growing | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 sent | advmod |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 sent | aux:pass |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sent | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sent | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 asked | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 29 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 what | case |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 asked | obl |
| 32 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 what | acl:relcl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 kept | aux |
| 35 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 reason | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 kept | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Nenebuc | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | grandfather | story | strange property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 4 | not send out | past · perfect · passive | grandfather | the world | like grandfather's brothers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | grandfather | grandfather's grandfather | what reason obl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient | |||
| 6 | keep | past · perfect · passive | reason not said here | grandfather | One obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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