Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 86
All the way along this pursuit, when he had found the people who had died on the march, he pulled at them to see if they were dead.
Who acts: Aniwɔ, people · What happens: find, die, pull, see, be · To what, where: people, march, way
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 (Aniwɔ, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 way | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pulled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 pursuit | det |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 found | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 way | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 died | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 died | aux |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 people | acl:relcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 march | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 march | det |
| 19 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 died | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pulled | nsubj |
| 22 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pulled | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pulled | advcl |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 dead | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dead | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 dead | cop |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 see | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect | Aniwɔ | the people | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | the people | the march | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | pull | past | Aniwɔ | all way along this pursuit | at people | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Aniwɔ not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | people | dead 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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