Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 26
However, one day he returned to where he had heard the giant women, and when he reached the lake, there they were, chasing beaver on the ice.
Who acts: Otter, women · What happens: return, hear, reach, chase · To what, where: giant women, lake, beaver, ice
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, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 where | case |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 returned | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 where | advcl:relcl |
| 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 reached | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 chasing | expl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 chasing | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 chasing | aux |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chasing | punct |
| 27 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reached | advcl |
| 28 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chasing | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 ice | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ice | det |
| 31 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chasing | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Otter | day | however property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to where=Result | |||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Otter | the giant women | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Otter | the lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chase | past · progressive | women = woman | beaver | the ice; there | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme on ice=Trajectory |
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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