Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 143
By and by he had nearly all kinds of animals for his sons-in-law, and there were still a great many children left in his family.
Who acts: Many, great many children · What happens: have, be, leave · To what, where: kinds, great many children, family
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 (Many, great many children), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 1 By | cc |
| 3 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 and | advcl |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 all | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 kinds | det |
| 8 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animals | case |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kinds | nmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 animals | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sons | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 were | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 were | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 were | expl |
| 21 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 children | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 children | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 were | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 children | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 family | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 family | nmod:poss |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 By | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Many | all kinds of animals for Many's sons and law | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a great many children | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a great many children not said here | in Many's family result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in family=Result |
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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