Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 119
A little while after this, they heard Wemicus coming along singing, “Spruce is warm, spruce is warm.”
Who acts: little while, Wemicus, Spruce · What happens: hear, come along, sing, be · To what, where: Wemicus · 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 (little while, Wemicus, Spruce), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 while | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 while | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 heard | xcomp |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 singing | mark |
| 12 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 coming | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 15 | Spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 warm | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 warm | cop |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 warm | punct |
| 19 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 warm | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 warm | cop |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warm | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 warm | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a little while after this | Wemicus | boughs = bough nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come along | gerund | Wemicus not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | Wemicus not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Spruce | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | spruce | warm 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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