Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 173
Ciŋgibis then dived into the water and the people came out in their canoes to look for him.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis, people · What happens: dive, come out, look · To what, where: water, canoes
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, people), 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 | 3 dived | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dived | advmod |
| 3 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dived | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dived | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 canoes | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | Ciŋgibis | the water | then | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | |||
| 2 | come out | past | the people | people's canoes | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the people not said here | for Ciŋgibis | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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