Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 5
Two girls, who were very foolish, talked foolishly and were in no respect like the other girls of their tribe, made their bed out-of-doors, and slept right out under the stars.
Who acts: Two girls · What happens: be, talk, make, sleep · To what, where: respect, bed, doors, stars
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 (Two girls), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 girls | nummod |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 foolish | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 foolish | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 foolish | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 foolish | advmod |
| 7 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 girls | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girls | punct |
| 9 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 9 talked | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 respect | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 respect | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 respect | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 respect | det |
| 15 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 talked | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 girls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girls | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girls | amod |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 respect | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tribe | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 girls | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 talked | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bed | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 doors | case |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 out | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 doors | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 of | punct |
| 31 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 slept | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 slept | cc |
| 34 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 talked | conj |
| 35 | right | right | ADV | _ | 36 out | advmod |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 slept | advmod |
| 37 | under | under | ADP | _ | 39 stars | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stars | det |
| 39 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 slept | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Two girls | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | Two girls | foolishly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Two girls not said here | no respect | like the other girls of girls's tribe | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | past | Two girls not said here | girls's bed | doors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product | |||
| 5 | sleep | past | Two girls not said here | the stars | out property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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