Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 90
A great many people passed, but all of them said that their canoes were too small, so the girls had to stay where they were.
Who acts: great many people, all, canoes, girls · What happens: pass, say, be, have, stay · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (great many people, all, canoes, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 all | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 small | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 canoes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 small | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 small | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 small | advmod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stay | mark |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 were | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 were | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 stay | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | a great many people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all of people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | people's canoes | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the girls | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | the girls not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | canoes = canoe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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