Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 31
When the young lions heard him, they said, “There’s the old medicine woman coming.”
Who acts: young lions, Lions, old medicine woman · What happens: hear, say, come · To what, where: Nenebuc · 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 (young lions, Lions, old medicine 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lions | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lions | amod |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 ’s | expl |
| 13 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 woman | compound |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | nsubj |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 woman | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the young lions | Nenebuc | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Lions = lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | the old medicine woman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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