Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 41
So, taking his load of otters, he went home to display what he thought was a pretty good hunt.
Who acts: otter · What happens: take, go, display, think, be · To what, where: load, good hunt
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 (otter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 load | nmod:poss |
| 5 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taking | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 otters | case |
| 7 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 taking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 taking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 display | mark |
| 13 | display | display | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hunt | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hunt | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hunt | amod |
| 21 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 display | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | otter not said here | otter's load | of otters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent load=Theme of otter=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | otter | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | display | to-infinitive | otter not said here | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | otter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | a good hunt | what nsubj | 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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