Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 82
The people had arrived here after a hard trip and begged Big Fisher for protection from Aniwɔ·ye.
Who acts: people · What happens: arrive, beg · To what, where: ye, Big Fisher, Aniwɔ
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | aux |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trip | det |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trip | amod |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begged | cc |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 12 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fisher | flat |
| 13 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 protection | case |
| 15 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Aniwɔ | case |
| 17 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obl |
| 18 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 19 ye | punct |
| 19 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 begged | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | the people | here | after a hard trip | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the people not said here | ye | Big Fisher | Aniwɔ | for protection | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fisher=Recipient for protection=Topic |
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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