Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 145
Then they went home and Wemicus said to his son-in-law, “There are a whole lot of eggs on that rocky island where the gulls are.
Who acts: lice, Wemicus, gulls · What happens: go, say, be · To what, where: son, rocky island · 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 (lice, Wemicus, gulls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 6 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 son | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 law | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 law | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 in | punct |
| 14 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 island | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 island | punct |
| 17 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 island | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lot | det |
| 20 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lot | amod |
| 21 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 are | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 eggs | case |
| 23 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lot | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 island | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 island | det |
| 26 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 island | amod |
| 27 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 island | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 gulls | det |
| 30 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 where | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 where | cop |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | lice = louse | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Wemicus | Wemicus's son in law | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that rocky island | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the gulls | where 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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