Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 10
Then she led him away to a village, where they saw a lot of great White Bears.
Who acts: wife, men · What happens: lead away, see · To what, where: him, village, lot
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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 village | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Bears | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Bears | amod |
| 17 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Bears | amod |
| 18 | Bears | Bear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 lot | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead away | past | wife | him = he | a village | then | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to village=Destination | |
| 2 | see | past | men = man | a lot of great White Bears | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus |
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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