Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 118
Soon two girls came along with an axe to get some wood and began cutting at the hollow pine in which Nenebuc was.
Who acts: two girls · What happens: come along, get, begin, cut · To what, where: wood
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 (two girls), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 girls | nummod |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 axe | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 15 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 began | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 pine | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pine | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pine | amod |
| 19 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cutting | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 was | obl |
| 22 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pine | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | two girls | with a axe; along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | two girls not said here | some wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | two girls not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cut | gerund | two girls not said here | at the hollow pine | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pine=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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