Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 48
There he stayed for a long time, boiling and circling round and round in the pot, but still he was alive.
Who acts: man · What happens: stay, boil, circle, be · To what, where: 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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stayed | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 boiling | punct |
| 9 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 circling | cc |
| 11 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 boiling | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 circling | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 round | cc |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 12 round | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 circling | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 alive | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 alive | cc |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 alive | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 alive | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 alive | cop |
| 23 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stayed | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | man | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | boil | gerund | man not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | circle | gerund | man not said here | the pot | round property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | man | still | alive property | tree rules |
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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