Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 40
While he was eating, he sat with open legs and the children cried out, “Look at the old woman with testicles hanging out!”
Who acts: Nenebuc, children, testicles · What happens: eat, sit, cry out, look, hang out · 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, children, testicles), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sat | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 legs | amod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sat | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cried | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 18 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Look | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 testicles | case |
| 24 | testicles | testicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 woman | nmod |
| 25 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 testicles | acl |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 hanging | compound:prt |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 Look | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | Nenebuc | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | Nenebuc | with open legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the children | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | infinitive | the children not said here | at the old woman with testicles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at woman=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hang out in a quote | gerund | testicles not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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