Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 64
On this account they started off in every direction in order to lead Aniwɔ·ye away from the camp and so save their own people and possibly themselves.
Who acts: people · What happens: start off, lead, save · To what, where: account, Aniwɔ, own people
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 account | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 account | det |
| 3 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 started | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 direction | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 direction | det |
| 9 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 order | case |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 direction | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lead | mark |
| 13 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | advcl |
| 14 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lead | obj |
| 15 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 14 Aniwɔ | punct |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 Aniwɔ | appos |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 lead | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 camp | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 save | cc |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 save | advmod |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lead | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 save | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 themselves | cc |
| 28 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 29 themselves | advmod |
| 29 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 save | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | people | this account | in every direction in order | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | people not said here | Aniwɔ | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aniwɔ=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | infinitive | people not said here | people's own people | people conj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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