Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 104
When the man heard this, he thought that Wemicus was up to some sort of mischief and was going to burn his moccasins.
Who acts: man, Wemicus · What happens: hear, think, go, burn, sort · To what, where: this, moccasins, mischief · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Wemicus), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 going | mark |
| 10 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 going | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 was | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sort | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mischief | case |
| 17 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sort | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 going | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 burn | mark |
| 22 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 going | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 24 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 burn | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the man | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | Wemicus | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus's moccasins | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moccasin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sort | mischief | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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