Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 98
The people pondered very much how to go about freeing these birds from the creature who kept them.
Who acts: people, creature · What happens: ponder, go, free, keep · To what, where: birds, creature
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 (people, creature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pondered | nsubj |
| 3 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 pondered | ccomp |
| 9 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 freeing | mark |
| 10 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 birds | det |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 freeing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 creature | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 creature | det |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 birds | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 creature | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | free | gerund | the people not said here | this birds | the creature | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer bird=Source | |||
| 4 | keep | past | the creature | birds = bird | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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