Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 47
As he came up, one of the giant women seized him and threw him into the pot.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: come up, seize, throw · To what, where: man, pot
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 (man, one), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 women | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 women | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 women | amod |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | one of the giant women | man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | one of the giant women not said here | man | into the pot result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into pot=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.
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