Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 9
When the Lions saw the thing on the beach, they grew curious to find out what this strange thing was on the beach that was not there the day before.
Who acts: Lions, that · What happens: see, grow, find out, be, not be · To what, where: thing, beach
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 (Lions, that), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lions | det |
| 3 | Lions | Lion | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 curious | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 beach | nsubj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thing | amod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beach | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 beach | cop |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 beach | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beach | det |
| 24 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 there | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 there | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 there | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 beach | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 there | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | before | before | ADV | _ | 30 day | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Lions | the thing | the beach | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Lions = lion | curious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find out | to-infinitive | Lions = lion not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the beach | what nsubj; this strange thing nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | that | day | there property | tree rules |
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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