Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 66
The winds became frightened at this and did not blow at all, and because of this the water grew thick and stagnant and Nenebuc was unable to fish.
Who acts: winds, water, Nenebuc · What happens: become, frighten, not blow, grow, be, fish · To what, where: this, all
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 (winds, water, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 winds | det |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 frightened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blow | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blow | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 blow | advmod |
| 10 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 became | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 blow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 grew | cc |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 grew | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 water | det |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 21 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stagnant | cc |
| 23 | stagnant | stagnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thick | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 unable | cc |
| 25 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 unable | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 unable | cop |
| 27 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thick | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 fish | mark |
| 29 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 unable | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the winds | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | the winds not said here | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not blow | past · do-support | the winds not said here | all | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | this water | thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Nenebuc | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fish | to-infinitive | Nenebuc not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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