Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 121
They went back to camp and told their father, “Here is a porcupine quill we found in a tree.”
Who acts: girls, porcupine quill, we · What happens: go back, tell, be, find · To what, where: father, porcupine quill, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girls, porcupine quill, we), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Here | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Here | punct |
| 12 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Here | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 quill | det |
| 15 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quill | compound |
| 16 | quill | quill | NOUN | _ | 12 Here | nsubj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 quill | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | girls = girl | to camp result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | girls = girl not said here | girls's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a porcupine quill | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | past | we | a porcupine quill not said here | a tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quill=Topic |
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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