Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 16
Nenebuc stood there wondering and waiting, and pretty soon he saw an old woman making the song.
Who acts: Nenebuc, old woman · What happens: stand, wonder, wait, see, make · To what, where: old woman, song
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, old woman), 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 | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | advmod |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stood | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | cc |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wondering | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 woman | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 song | det |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 making | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Nenebuc | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Nenebuc | a old woman | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | a old woman not said here | the song | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product |
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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