Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 23
He returned home and told his grandmother, “I heard the giant women scraping beaver hides.”
Who acts: Otter, giant women · What happens: return, tell, hear, scrape, hide · To what, where: grandmother, giant women, beaver · 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 (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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 returned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hides | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 women | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 women | amod |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | scraping | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 women | acl |
| 16 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scraping | obj |
| 17 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Otter | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Otter not said here | Otter's grandmother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | Otter | the giant women | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | scrape in a quote | gerund | the giant women not said here | beaver | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hide in a quote | present | vn concealment-16-1 «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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