Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 130
The Beavers were in their houses and they saw the Indians, but they couldn’t hear the talking.
Who acts: Beavers, companions · What happens: be, see, not hear · To what, where: houses, Indians, talking
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 (Beavers, companions), 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 Beavers | det |
| 2 | Beavers | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 houses | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 houses | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 houses | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 houses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 houses | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Indians | det |
| 11 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hear | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hear | advmod |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saw | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 talking | det |
| 19 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 houses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Beavers | companions's houses | companions = companion nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | companions = companion | the Indians | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indian=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not hear | could | companions = companion | the talking | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talking=Stimulus |
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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