Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 176
Ten days after this had happened, early in the morning the people heard somebody singing near the shore three times, “Who killed our chief?
Who acts: Ten days, people · What happens: happen, hear, sing, kill · To what, where: somebody, shore, chief · 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 (Ten days, 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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 days | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 heard | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | parataxis |
| 15 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 somebody | acl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 singing | obl |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 killed | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 killed | punct |
| 24 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 killed | nsubj |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | conj |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 chief | nmod:poss |
| 27 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | Ten days after this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the people | somebody | morning; time | early property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer somebody=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the shore | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shore=Location | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | past | our chief | Who nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/14/176/