Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 55
Wolverine soon returned and began to whistle for his wives, and the trees all around him whistled in answer.
Who acts: Wolverine, trees · What happens: return, begin, whistle
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, trees), 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 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 began | cc |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 whistle | mark |
| 7 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wives | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wives | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whistle | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whistled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whistled | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 whistled | nsubj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 him | advmod |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trees | nmod |
| 18 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 answer | case |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 whistled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Wolverine | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Wolverine not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | whistle | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | for Wolverine's wives | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for wife=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | whistle | past | the trees around Wolverine | in answer | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in answer=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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