Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 84
Those who had reached Big Fisher’s camp kept watching for Aniwɔ·ye to appear across the lake on their tracks.
Who acts: Those, ye · What happens: reach, keep, watch, appear · To what, where: camp, lake
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 (Those, ye), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 5 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fisher | flat |
| 6 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 camp | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fisher | case |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Aniwɔ | case |
| 12 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 watching | obl |
| 13 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 16 appear | punct |
| 14 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 appear | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 appear | mark |
| 16 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watching | conj |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 lake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appear | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 tracks | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 appear | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | Big Fisher's camp | who nsubj | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Those | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | Those not said here | for Aniwɔ | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for aniwɔ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | to-infinitive | ye | the lake | on people's tracks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on track=Location |
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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