Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 55
As soon as the queen died, a giant stream poured out of the cave and the lake began rising.
Who acts: queen, giant stream · What happens: die, pour out, begin, rise · To what, where: cave
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 (queen, giant stream), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 began | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 died | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 died | nsubj |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 began | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 died | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stream | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stream | amod |
| 10 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 began | nsubj |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stream | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lake | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cave | conj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the queen | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | pour out | participle | a giant stream not said here | the cave and the lake | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | a giant stream | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | a giant stream 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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