Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 31
Then they asked him to stay with them, but he went away after he had stolen the big beaver tail, six feet long, and went back to his grandmother.
Who acts: right, Beaver · What happens: ask, stay, go away, steal, go back · To what, where: Beaver, big beaver tail
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 (right, Beaver), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 17 stolen | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stolen | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stolen | aux |
| 17 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tail | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 20 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tail | compound |
| 21 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stolen | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feet | punct |
| 23 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nummod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 long | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 tail | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 grandmother | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | right | Beaver | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | right not said here | with right | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | Beaver | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect | Beaver | the big beaver tail | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go back | past | to Beaver's grandmother result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to grandmother=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/15/31/