Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 142
Many of his children had married the different animals who lived in various parts of the surrounding country.
Who acts: different animals · What happens: marry, live · To what, where: Many, various parts
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 (different animals), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 children | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 married | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 animals | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 parts | case |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 parts | amod |
| 14 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 country | compound |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 parts | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | Many of Wemicus's children | the different animals obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | the different animals | various parts of the surrounding country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
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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