Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 72
Then she took a stick which she used to poke the fire with and began feeling all around, poking in the corners of the wigwam to find if Ayas·e were there.
Who acts: number, e · What happens: take, use, poke, begin, feel, find · To what, where: stick, fire, corners, Ayas · 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 (number, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stick | det |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 used | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | nsubj |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stick | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 poke | mark |
| 10 | poke | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poke | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 poke | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 began | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 around | advmod |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 feeling | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poking | punct |
| 20 | poking | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 feeling | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 corners | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 corners | det |
| 23 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 poking | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wigwam | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wigwam | det |
| 26 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 corners | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 poking | advcl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 Ayas | mark |
| 30 | Ayas | Aya | PROPN | Number=Plur | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 32 e | punct |
| 32 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 there | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 there | cop |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 find | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | number | a stick | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | use | past | number | a stick | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | poke | to-infinitive | number not said here | the fire | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | number not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | feel | gerund | number not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | poke | gerund | number not said here | the corners of the wigwam | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | number not said here | Ayas | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aya=Topic | ||||
| 8 | is | past | e | there property | 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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