Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 47
She went out crying to her people, “This man has killed our otters!”
Who acts: wife, man · What happens: go out, cry, kill · To what, where: people, otters · Speech: someone speaks here
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, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 went | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 10 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 otters | nmod:poss |
| 15 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 killed | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | wife not said here | wife's people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | present · perfect | this man | our otters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent otter=Theme |
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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