Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 131
At this time they were big enough to shoot bows and arrows and to go in a canoe with their grandmother to set the night lines [42] for fish.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, shoot, go, set · To what, where: bows, canoe, night lines
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 (father), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 big | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | cop |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shoot | mark |
| 9 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 big | advcl |
| 10 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shoot | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrows | cc |
| 12 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bows | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shoot | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 canoe | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 canoe | det |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 grandmother | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lines | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lines | compound |
| 26 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 set | obj |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 28 42 | punct |
| 28 | 42 | 42 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 lines | appos |
| 29 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 28 42 | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 fish | case |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 big | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | father | time | big, enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | father not said here | bows and arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | father not said here | a canoe | with father's grandmother | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with grandmother=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | set | to-infinitive | father not said here | the night lines | for fish | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent line=Patient for fish=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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