Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 61
Once upon a time in a camp where there were lots of people, hunters of a big band, they beheld the tracks of Aniwɔ·ye near one of their trails.
Who acts: lots, people · What happens: be, behold · To what, where: tracks, camp
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 (lots, people), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beheld | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beheld | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 were | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beheld | advcl |
| 11 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lots | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunters | punct |
| 15 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lots | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 band | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 band | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 band | amod |
| 19 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunters | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 beheld | nsubj |
| 22 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tracks | det |
| 24 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beheld | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Aniwɔ | case |
| 26 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tracks | nmod |
| 27 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 28 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 one | nsubj |
| 29 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 beheld | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 trails | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 trails | nmod:poss |
| 33 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | lots of people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | people | the tracks of Aniwɔ | a camp | time | near one ye of people's trails; once property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus |
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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