Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 90
Not long after this Skunk started out to visit Wemicus and, on his way, he passed the three stumps which Wemicus had blown up and knew that he had no more shots left.
Who acts: Skunk, Wemicus · What happens: start out, visit, pass, blow up, know, have · To what, where: Wemicus, three stumps, more shots · 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 (Skunk, 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 started | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 started | mark |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Skunk | det |
| 5 | Skunk | Skunk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 visit | mark |
| 9 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 started | xcomp |
| 10 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 visit | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 way | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Wemicus | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stumps | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 stumps | nummod |
| 21 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 blown | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 blown | aux |
| 25 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 stumps | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 blown | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 knew | cc |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 blown | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 knew | ccomp |
| 32 | no | no | ADV | _ | 33 more | advmod |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 shots | amod |
| 34 | shots | shot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 had | obj |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 shots | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | this Skunk | long property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | this Skunk not said here | Wemicus and Wemicus's way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wemicus=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | Wemicus | the three stumps | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stump=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | blow up | past · perfect · passive | the three stumps | Wemicus nsubj | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | Wemicus | more shots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shot=Patient | ||||
| 7 | leave | participle | more shots not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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