Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 17
There was an old woman up in this world who sat over a hole in the sky, and, whenever she moved, she showed them the hole and said, “That’s where you came from.”
Who acts: old woman, world, woman, That, you · What happens: be up, sit, move, show, say, be · To what, where: world, hole, stars · 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 (old woman, world, woman, That), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 was | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 world | acl:relcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 hole | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 moved | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
| 21 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 moved | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 moved | nsubj |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 showed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 showed | nsubj |
| 26 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 showed | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hole | det |
| 29 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 showed | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 said | cc |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 showed | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 came | punct |
| 34 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 where | nsubj |
| 35 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 where | cop |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 came | advmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 came | nsubj |
| 38 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | ccomp |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 came | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | past | a old woman | this world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | this world | a hole in the sky | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over hole=Location | ||||
| 3 | move | past | woman | whenever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | past | woman | stars = star | the hole obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient hole=Topic | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | That | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | past | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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