Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 91
When Crow reached the place from which he started out, he found Nenebuc and all the animals waiting for him.
Who acts: Crow, animals · What happens: reach, start out, find, wait · To what, where: place, Nenebuc
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 (Crow, animals), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | Crow | Crow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 started | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 animals | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 animals | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 animals | det |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Nenebuc | conj |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 animals | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waiting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Crow | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start out | past | Crow | the place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Crow | Nenebuc and all animals | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nenebuc=Topic | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | all animals not said here | for Crow | vn exist-47.1 «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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