Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 11
So the Lions came ashore upon the sand and Nenebuc shot one of them with his arrow—a she-lion, the wife of the Lion chief.
Who acts: Lions, Nenebuc · What happens: come, shoot · To what, where: sand, one
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 (Lions, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lions | det |
| 3 | Lions | Lion | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 sand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sand | det |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shot | cc |
| 10 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | nsubj |
| 11 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 shot | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 arrow | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 lion | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lion | det |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lion | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 she | punct |
| 22 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrow | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lion | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chief | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chief | det |
| 28 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 chief | compound |
| 29 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wife | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Lions | the sand | ashore property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sand=Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | Nenebuc | one of Lions | with Nenebuc's arrow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent one=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
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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