Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 109
So Ciŋgibis and the two girls went ashore and pulled roots and made a string out of them.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis · What happens: go, pull, make · To what, where: roots, string
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 girls | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girls | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 girls | nummod |
| 6 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Ciŋgibis | conj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pulled | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 string | det |
| 15 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls | ashore property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls not said here | roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Ciŋgibis and the two girls not said here | a string | out roots = root | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |
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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