Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 153
An old woman who was cooking inside spoke to him, as had the first, and invited him to come in and eat.
Who acts: old woman, man · What happens: cook, speak, have, invite, come in, eat · To what, where: man, first · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, man), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cooking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooking | aux |
| 6 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woman | acl:relcl |
| 7 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 cooking | advmod |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spoke | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoke | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 invited | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 invited | cc |
| 18 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoke | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 invited | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 invited | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · progressive | a old woman | inside property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | a old woman | man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a old woman not said here | the first | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=Patient | ||||
| 4 | invite | past | a old woman not said here | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | eat | infinitive | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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