Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 114
When the girls saw the string jerk, they pulled him up and he brought with him a big beaver.
Who acts: girls, Ciŋgibis · What happens: see, pull up, bring · To what, where: string jerk, Ciŋgibis, big beaver
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 (girls, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girls | det |
| 3 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jerk | det |
| 6 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jerk | compound |
| 7 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | nsubj |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 pulled | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 beaver | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beaver | amod |
| 20 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girls | the string jerk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jerk=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | pull up | past | girls = girl | Ciŋgibis | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | Ciŋgibis | a big beaver | with village | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument beaver=Destination |
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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