Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 49
At last one of the little lion children peeped and saw Nenebuc pushing the arrow farther in.
Who acts: little lion children, Nenebuc · What happens: peep, see, push · To what, where: Nenebuc, arrow
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 (little lion children, Nenebuc), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 peeped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 children | compound |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peeped | nsubj |
| 9 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 peeped | conj |
| 12 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arrow | det |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pushing | obj |
| 16 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 in | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 13 pushing | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the little lion children | at last one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the little lion children not said here | Nenebuc | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | push | gerund | Nenebuc not said here | the arrow | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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