Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 184
Then the Ducks and Geese drank all the lake dry and chased Ciŋgibis among the rocks, and thought that they would catch him.
Who acts: Ducks, men · What happens: drink, chase, think, catch · To what, where: lake, Ciŋgibis, rocks · 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 (Ducks, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 drank | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ducks | det |
| 3 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drank | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Geese | cc |
| 5 | Geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Ducks | conj |
| 6 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 lake | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drank | obj |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drank | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chased | cc |
| 12 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 13 | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 chased | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 rocks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chased | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drank | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 catch | aux |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 catch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | the Ducks and Geese | all lake | then | dry property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient | ||
| 2 | chase | past | the Ducks and Geese not said here | Ciŋgibis | the rocks | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ciŋgibis=Theme among rock=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the Ducks and Geese not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | would | 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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