Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 43
The stone was so thick that they were unable to hear the giant women pounding on the outside.
Who acts: stone, Tcaka, giant women · What happens: be, hear, pound · To what, where: giant women, outside
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 (stone, Tcaka, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thick | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 thick | advmod |
| 5 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 unable | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unable | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 unable | cop |
| 9 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thick | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 unable | xcomp |
| 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 hear | obj |
| 15 | pounding | pound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 women | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 outside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 outside | det |
| 18 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pounding | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stone | thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Tcaka | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | Tcaka not said here | the giant women | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pound | gerund | the giant women not said here | the outside | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on outside=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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