Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 61
There was no dry or green wood lying around, but inside the house they saw a fire-place and plenty of hay.
Who acts: dry wood, woods · What happens: be, lie around, see · To what, where: fire place, house
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 (dry wood, woods), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 wood | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wood | amod |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 green | cc |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dry | conj |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wood | acl |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 fire | punct |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plenty | cc |
| 22 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hay | case |
| 24 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plenty | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no dry wood | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie around | gerund | no dry wood not said here | around property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | woods = wood | a fire place and plenty of hay | the house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
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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