Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 8
When she was twelve years old, the age of puberty, she was taken over a hill and was kept there in a camp alone for twelve days, neither eating nor drinking, in order that she might have a dream.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, take, keep, eat, drink, have · To what, where: wife, hill, camp, order, dream
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 (wife), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 taken | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 age | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 age | det |
| 9 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 puberty | case |
| 11 | puberty | puberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 age | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 old | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taken | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kept | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kept | aux:pass |
| 21 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 taken | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 kept | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 camp | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 camp | det |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kept | obl |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 kept | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 28 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 kept | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eating | punct |
| 31 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 eating | cc:preconj |
| 32 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 kept | conj |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 drinking | cc |
| 34 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 eating | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 order | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 order | case |
| 37 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eating | obl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 have | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 have | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | aux |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 order | acl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 dream | det |
| 43 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | the age of puberty; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | wife | a hill | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | a camp; there | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in camp=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | order | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | gerund | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | have | might | wife | a dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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