Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 102
Then one of the girls who had refused the young man in marriage followed him and he led her a long chase.
Who acts: girls, Hump · What happens: refuse, follow, lead · To what, where: young man, marriage, one, girl
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, Hump), 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 | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 followed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 girls | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girls | det |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 refused | aux |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 girls | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 marriage | case |
| 13 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | obl |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 followed | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 led | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 led | nsubj |
| 18 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 followed | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 led | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chase | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chase | amod |
| 22 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 led | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past · perfect | the girls | the young man | marriage | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 2 | follow | past | the girls | one | man obj | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead | past | Hump | girl | a long chase obj | 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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