Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 153
The gulls started to fly about the man, but the man had his paddle with him and he killed one of the gulls with it.
Who acts: gulls, man, Wemicus · What happens: start, fly, have, kill · To what, where: paddle, one
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 (gulls, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gulls | det |
| 2 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fly | mark |
| 5 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 started | xcomp |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fly | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 paddle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 killed | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gulls | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gulls | det |
| 24 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gulls | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the gulls | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | the gulls not said here | about the man | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about man=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the man | man's paddle | with Wemicus | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paddle=Patient | |||
| 4 | kill | past | Wemicus | one of the gulls with paddle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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