Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 94
When his back was toward them, et cum pediturus esset, they opened ranks and Big Fisher ran forth et prius anum Aniwɔ·yei cepit quam hie pedere posset.
Who acts: lots, Big Fisher, yei cepit quam · What happens: be, open, run, hie · To what, where: pediturus esset, ranks, et prius anum, pedere posset
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, Big Fisher, yei cepit quam), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 was | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 esset | cop |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 was | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 esset | punct |
| 8 | et | et | CCONJ | _ | 11 esset | cc |
| 9 | cum | cum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pediturus | compound |
| 10 | pediturus | pediturus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 esset | compound |
| 11 | esset | esset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 esset | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 17 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Fisher | flat |
| 18 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 opened | conj |
| 20 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | et | et | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 anum | amod |
| 22 | prius | prius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 anum | compound |
| 23 | anum | anum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obj |
| 24 | Aniwɔ | Aniwɔ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 anum | appos |
| 25 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 29 hie | punct |
| 26 | yei | yei | X | _ | 28 quam | compound |
| 27 | cepit | cepit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 quam | compound |
| 28 | quam | quam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hie | nsubj |
| 29 | hie | hie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | conj |
| 30 | pedere | pedere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 posset | compound |
| 31 | posset | posset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hie | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lots = lot not said here | pediturus esset | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | past | lots = lot | ranks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rank=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Big Fisher | et prius anum | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anum=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | hie | present | yei cepit quam | pedere posset | 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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