Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 64
After this he went fishing and found it calm with only a little puff of wind now and then.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: go, fish, find, puff · To what, where: thing, wind
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 (grandfather), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fishing | fish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 puff | case |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 puff | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 puff | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 puff | amod |
| 14 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 puff | nmod |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 found | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 then | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 now | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | grandfather | after this | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fish | gerund | grandfather not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | grandfather not said here | thing | now; then | with a little puff of wind; calm property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||
| 4 | puff | wind | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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