Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 164
Then Wemicus thought it very strange how the man could have gotten home, but no one told him how it had been done.
Who acts: Wemicus, man, one · What happens: think, get, tell, do · To what, where: smoking, man · 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, man, one), 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 thought | advmod |
| 2 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 strange | advmod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 gotten | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gotten | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 gotten | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gotten | aux |
| 12 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 strange | advcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 gotten | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 done | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 told | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Wemicus | smoking | then | strange property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||
| 2 | get | could · perfect | the man | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | no one | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | smoking | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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