Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 124
All the people yelled when they saw Ciŋgibis, for he was a great man, although he was the ugliest one among them.
Who acts: people, Ciŋgibis · What happens: yell, see, be · To what, where: Ciŋgibis, ugliest one · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 yelled | nsubj |
| 4 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 saw | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yelled | ccomp |
| 8 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 man | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 17 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 one | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | appos |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | all people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past | people | Ciŋgibis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ciŋgibis=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ciŋgibis | for a great man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Ciŋgibis | the ugliest one | among people | tree rules |
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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