Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 142
Ciŋgibis came back from the dance and, thinking that he was sleeping with his two wives, he lay down between the two stumps and fell asleep.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis · What happens: come back, think, sleep, lie down, fall · To what, where: dance, two stumps · 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 (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 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 dance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dance | det |
| 6 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thinking | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinking | punct |
| 9 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 sleeping | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sleeping | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sleeping | aux |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thinking | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wives | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wives | nmod:poss |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 wives | nummod |
| 17 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sleeping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 lay | advmod |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 stumps | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stumps | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 stumps | nummod |
| 25 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fell | cc |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lay | conj |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fell | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | Ciŋgibis | the dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Ciŋgibis not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past · progressive | Ciŋgibis | with Ciŋgibis's two wives | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lie down | past | Ciŋgibis | the two stumps | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between stump=Location | |||
| 5 | fall | past | Ciŋgibis not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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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