Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 108
He started west and is there yet, lying on his back, singing and hammering at his wigwam poles, in place of drumming, all the time.
Who acts: Nenebuc, place · What happens: start, be, lie, sing, hammer, drum · To what, where: back
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nenebuc, place), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | west | west | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 started | conj |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 started | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 singing | punct |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lying | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hammering | cc |
| 16 | hammering | hammer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 singing | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 poles | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 poles | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poles | compound |
| 20 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hammering | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 place | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poles | conj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 drumming | mark |
| 25 | drumming | drum | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 place | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 time | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Nenebuc | yet | west property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | Nenebuc not said here | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Nenebuc's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hammer | gerund | at Nenebuc's wigwam poles and place | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pole=Patient | |||||
| 6 | drum | gerund | place not said here | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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