Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 155
When he reached the middle of the lake, he saw Wemicus going along and singing to himself.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: reach, see, go along, sing · To what, where: middle, 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 (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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 going | nsubj |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 singing | cc |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 going | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 singing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Wemicus | the middle of the lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Wemicus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go along | gerund | Wemicus | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | gerund | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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