Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 141
They then went back to camp and put two stumps in the place where they were to sleep, covered them with blankets and ran off.
Who acts: wives · What happens: go back, camp, put, sleep, cover, run off · To what, where: two stumps, place, wives
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 (wives), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 camp | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 6 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 camp | conj |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 stumps | nummod |
| 10 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 sleep | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sleep | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sleep | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sleep | mark |
| 18 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 covered | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 blankets | case |
| 23 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ran | cc |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 ran | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | wives = wife | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | camp | infinitive | wives = wife not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | wives = wife not said here | two stumps | the place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stump=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 4 | sleep | past | wives = wife | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cover | past | wives = wife not said here | wives = wife | with blankets | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with blanket=Theme | |||
| 6 | run off | past | wives = wife not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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