Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 46
Some time after this, Tcaka·bįs went back again to the giant women and found them pounding up and boiling moose bones to make soup.
Who acts: Tcaka bįs, bįs · What happens: go back, find, pound up, boil, make · To what, where: bįs, moose bones, soup
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 (Tcaka bįs, bįs), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | Tcaka | Tcaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bįs | compound |
| 7 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tcaka | punct |
| 8 | bįs | bį | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 women | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 women | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 women | amod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | pounding | pound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 found | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 pounding | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 boiling | cc |
| 22 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 pounding | conj |
| 23 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bones | compound |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 boiling | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pounding | advcl |
| 27 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | Tcaka bįs | again; time | to the giant women result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to woman=Result | |||
| 2 | find | past | Tcaka bįs not said here | bįs = bį | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pound up | gerund | bįs = bį not said here | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | boil | gerund | bįs = bį not said here | moose bones | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | bįs = bį not said here | soup | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soup=Product |
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/pg66509/15/46/