Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 103
She began to feel it grow warmer (it was April) and soon she found one of his mittens and later his hat.
Who acts: girl, chase · What happens: begin, feel, grow, be, find · To what, where: chase, April, one
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 (girl, chase), 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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 feel | mark |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | obj |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 grow | xcomp |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 April | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 April | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 April | cop |
| 11 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 warmer | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 April | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 found | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mittens | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mittens | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mittens | mitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hat | cc |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 hat | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mittens | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | girl not said here | chase | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | chase not said here | warm property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | chase | April | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | girl | one of Hump's mittens and Hump's hat | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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