Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 105
Their moccasins were hanging up before a fire to dry and, while Wemicus was not looking, the man changed the places of Wemicus’ moccasins and his own, and then went to sleep.
Who acts: moccasins, Wemicus, man · What happens: hang up, dry, not look, change, go · To what, where: fire, places, sleep
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 (moccasins, Wemicus, man), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 2 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hanging | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hanging | aux |
| 4 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hanging | compound:prt |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hanging | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 dry | mark |
| 10 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hanging | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 looking | mark |
| 14 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 looking | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 looking | advmod |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 dry | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hanging | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 places | det |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 changed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 moccasins | case |
| 25 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 moccasins | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 25 Wemicus | case |
| 27 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 places | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 own | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 own | nmod:poss |
| 30 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moccasins | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 went | advmod |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 sleep | case |
| 36 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | past · progressive | moccasins's moccasins | a fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before fire=Location | ||||
| 2 | dry | to-infinitive | moccasins's moccasins not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not look | past · progressive | Wemicus | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | change | past | the man | the places of Wemicus's moccasins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the man not said here | sleep | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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