Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 48
Then Wolverine agreed to take one girl at a time, so he took the first one down and went back for the next.
Who acts: Wolverine · What happens: agree, take, go back · To what, where: one girl, first one
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 (Wolverine), 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 | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 girl | nummod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 next | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 next | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Wolverine | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | one girl | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | Wolverine | the first one | down property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | go back | past | Wolverine not said here | for the next | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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