Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 180
When the man sailed over the spot where Wemicus had upset, he saw a big pike (ki·nų′je) there, into which Wemicus had been transformed when the canoe upset.
Who acts: man, Wemicus · What happens: sail, have, see, transform · To what, where: spot, big pike, Wemicus
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailed | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 had | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pike | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pike | amod |
| 17 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 ki | punct |
| 19 | ki | ki | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pike | appos |
| 20 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 21 nų | punct |
| 21 | nų | nų | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 ki | appos |
| 22 | ′ | ′ | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 nų | flat:foreign |
| 23 | je | je | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 nų | flat:foreign |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 ki | punct |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 transformed | punct |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 transformed | obl |
| 29 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 transformed | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 transformed | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 transformed | aux:pass |
| 32 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 saw | conj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 upset | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 canoe | det |
| 35 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 upset | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 transformed | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the man | the spot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over spot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Wemicus | upset property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Wemicus | a big pike | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | transform | past · perfect · passive | Wemicus | which obl | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into which=Result |
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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