Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 13

There were four of them there, the two girls and the two stars who had become men.

Who acts: four, two stars · What happens: be, have, become · To what, where: become men

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 (four, two stars), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 were	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 four	nmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 were	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 girls	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girls	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 girls	nummod
10	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stars	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stars	det
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 stars	nummod
14	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 girls	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stars	acl:relcl
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 men	amod
18	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	four of girls		there; there	the two girls and the two stars nsubj	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the two stars	become men			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	become	participle					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/13/

🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 13