Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 125
Nenebuc in his tracks encountered the great Bear that killed and ate the Indians—so many of them that they feared they would all be killed.
Who acts: Nenebuc, great Bear, Indians · What happens: encounter, kill, eat, fear · To what, where: great Bear, Indians · 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 (Nenebuc, great Bear, Indians), 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 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 encountered | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 tracks | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nenebuc | nmod |
| 5 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bear | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Bear | amod |
| 8 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encountered | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 killed | nsubj |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Bear | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ate | cc |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indians | det |
| 14 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 ate | obj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 many | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 encountered | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 many | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 feared | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feared | nsubj |
| 22 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 many | advcl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 killed | aux |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 killed | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 killed | aux:pass |
| 27 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 feared | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | Nenebuc in Nenebuc's tracks | the great Bear | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | the great Bear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | the great Bear not said here | the Indians | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | Indians = indian | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | kill | would · passive | Indians = indian | all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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