Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 123
The mother was very sad because she had to leave him and because he was not strong enough to go with them.
Who acts: mother, Loon, pitch · What happens: be, have, leave, not be, go · To what, where: pitch
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 (mother, Loon, pitch), 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 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sad | advmod |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 had | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strong | cc |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 strong | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strong | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strong | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 strong | advmod |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sad | conj |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 strong | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 strong | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mother | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Loon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Loon not said here | pitch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | pitch | enough, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | pitch not said here | with birds = bird | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary |
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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