Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 95
Some people came along and stole the geese, but left the legs sticking in the same place.
Who acts: people, legs · What happens: come along, steal, leave, stick · To what, where: geese, legs, same place
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 (people, legs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stole | cc |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 geese | det |
| 8 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stole | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legs | det |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 legs | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sticking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | some people | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | steal | past | some people not said here | the geese | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location goose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | some people not said here | the legs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stick | gerund | the legs not said here | the same place | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination |
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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