Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 138
Before noon-time he came to where a camp was located, and going up to it, beheld an old woman cooking there.
Who acts: man, old woman · What happens: come, locate, go up, behold, cook · To what, where: camp, old woman
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old woman), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 noon | punct |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 12 located | mark |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 located | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 located | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 located | aux:pass |
| 12 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beheld | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beheld | cc |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 beheld | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 going | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 20 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | advcl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 woman | amod |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beheld | obj |
| 24 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 woman | acl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 cooking | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | locate | past · passive | a camp | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go up | gerund | camp | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | behold | participle | man not said here | a old woman | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | cook | gerund | a old woman not said here | there | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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