Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 49
Then Wolverine went away with his two wives and enjoyed himself greatly, as he was ugly and nobody else would have him.
Who acts: Wolverine, nobody · What happens: go away, enjoy, be, have · To what, where: Wolverine
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, nobody), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wives | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wives | nmod:poss |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 wives | nummod |
| 8 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 enjoyed | cc |
| 10 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 enjoyed | obj |
| 12 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 enjoyed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ugly | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 ugly | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ugly | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ugly | cop |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 19 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 have | nsubj |
| 20 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 nobody | advmod |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ugly | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | Wolverine | then | with Wolverine's two wives; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | enjoy | past | Wolverine not said here | Wolverine | greatly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | past | Wolverine | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | would | nobody | Wolverine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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