Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 146
At daybreak he went to the chief’s wigwam and there, sleeping with the Chief, he saw his two wives.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis · What happens: go, sleep, see · To what, where: daybreak, two 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 daybreak | case |
| 2 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wigwam | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 9 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 there | cc |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 wigwam | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleeping | punct |
| 13 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Chief | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Chief | det |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sleeping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wives | nmod:poss |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 wives | nummod |
| 22 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ciŋgibis | daybreak | to the chief's wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sleep | gerund | Ciŋgibis not said here | with the Chief | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis's two wives | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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