Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 22
He came to where there were some giant women who were scraping frozen beaver skins, “kąc, kąc.”
Who acts: Otter, giant women · What happens: come, be, scrape, freeze · To what, where: frozen beaver skins
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 (Otter, giant women), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 where | case |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 were | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 women | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 women | amod |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 scraping | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scraping | aux |
| 12 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 women | acl:relcl |
| 13 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 skins | amod |
| 14 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skins | compound |
| 15 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 scraping | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kąc | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 kąc | punct |
| 18 | kąc | kąc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skins | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kąc | punct |
| 20 | kąc | kąc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skins | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Otter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | some giant women | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scrape | past · progressive | some giant women | frozen beaver skins and kąc and kąc | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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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