Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 63
As soon as they became aware of his presence, one of them said, “We had better begin to cook something and we will find out if Ayas·e is passing here.”
Who acts: Ayas, one, We, Ayas e · What happens: become, say, have, begin, cook, find out · To what, where: something · 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 (Ayas, one, We, Ayas e), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 became | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 became | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 became | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 presence | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 presence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aware | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 had | advmod |
| 20 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 cook | mark |
| 22 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begin | xcomp |
| 23 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 cook | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 find | cc |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 find | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 find | aux |
| 27 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 find | compound:prt |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 passing | mark |
| 30 | Ayas | Ayas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 e | compound |
| 31 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ayas | punct |
| 32 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 passing | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 passing | aux |
| 34 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 find | advcl |
| 35 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 passing | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Ayas = aya | aware, soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of Ayas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | We | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | begin in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cook in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | something | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | find out in a quote | future | we | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | pass a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · progressive | Ayas e | here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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