Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 101
Ciŋgibis was very glad to have two wives, so he paddled over and got the two girls.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis · What happens: be, have, paddle over, get · To what, where: two wives, two girls
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ciŋgibis), 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 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wives | nummod |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 paddled | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 paddled | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 paddled | nsubj |
| 12 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | parataxis |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 paddled | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 paddled | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 girls | nummod |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ciŋgibis | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | Ciŋgibis not said here | two wives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 3 | paddle over | past | Ciŋgibis | over property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Ciŋgibis not said here | the two girls | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
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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