Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 181
When Ciŋgibis dived, they could only see his feathers which his grandmother had given him, but they could not catch him.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis, men · What happens: dive, see, give, not catch · To what, where: feathers, grandmother, Ciŋgibis
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, men), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dived | advmod |
| 2 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dived | nsubj |
| 3 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dived | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 given | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 catch | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 catch | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 catch | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 catch | advmod |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past | Ciŋgibis | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | see | could | men = man | Ciŋgibis's feathers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feather=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | Ciŋgibis's grandmother | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis's feathers obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not catch | could | men = man | Ciŋgibis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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