Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 186
So he ran about and kicked the rocks with the flints his grandmother had given him, which were fastened to his feet, and water began flowing out and finally covered everything.
Who acts: Ciŋgibis, water · What happens: run about, kick, give, fasten, begin, flow out · To what, where: rocks, flints, Ciŋgibis, everything
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, water), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kicked | cc |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rocks | det |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kicked | obj |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 given | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flints | det |
| 11 | flints | flint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 kicked | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fastened | aux:pass |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 given | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fastened | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 began | cc |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 began | nsubj |
| 27 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 28 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 began | xcomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 flowing | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 covered | cc |
| 31 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 32 covered | advmod |
| 32 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 began | conj |
| 33 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 covered | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | past | Ciŋgibis | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kick | past | Ciŋgibis not said here | the rocks | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | the flints | Ciŋgibis | Ciŋgibis's grandmother nsubj:pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | |||
| 4 | fasten | past · passive | to Ciŋgibis's feet; which nsubj:pass | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | |||||
| 5 | begin | past | water | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | flow out | gerund | water not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | cover | participle | water not said here | everything | finally property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Destination |
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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