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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 137

So the young Beavers went to different places under the ice and when they saw a dog passing, they whistled and all were thus caught and killed by the men.

Who acts: young Beavers, Indians, dog · What happens: go, see, pass, whistle, catch, kill · To what, where: ice, dog, all

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 (young Beavers, Indians, dog), 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

advmoddetamodnsubjcaseamodoblcasedetoblccadvmodnsubjconjdetobjxcomppunctnsubjconjccnsubj:passaux:passadvmodconjccconjcasedetoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETyoungADJBeaversPROPNwentVERBtoADPdifferentADJplacesNOUNunderADPtheDETiceNOUNandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONsawVERBaDETdogNOUNpassingVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONwhistledVERBandCCONJallDETwereAUXthusADVcaughtVERBandCCONJkilledVERBbyADPtheDETmenNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_5 wentadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Beaversdet
3youngyoungADJDegree=Pos4 Beaversamod
4BeaversBeaverPROPNNumber=Plur5 wentnsubj
5wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6totoADP_8 placescase
7differentdifferentADJDegree=Pos8 placesamod
8placesplaceNOUNNumber=Plur5 wentobl
9underunderADP_11 icecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 icedet
11iceiceNOUNNumber=Sing5 wentobl
12andandCCONJ_15 sawcc
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 sawadvmod
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 sawnsubj
15sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wentconj
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 dogdet
17dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing15 sawobj
18passingpassVERBVerbForm=Ger15 sawxcomp
19,,PUNCT_21 whistledpunct
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 whistlednsubj
21whistledwhistleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wentconj
22andandCCONJ_26 caughtcc
23allallDETPronType=Tot26 caughtnsubj:pass
24werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 caughtaux:pass
25thusthusADV_26 caughtadvmod
26caughtcatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 whistledconj
27andandCCONJ_28 killedcc
28killedkillVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 caughtconj
29bybyADP_31 mencase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 mendet
31menmanNOUNNumber=Plur28 killedobl
32..PUNCT_5 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastthe young Beaversthe iceto different placesvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2seepastIndians = indiana dogtree rules
3passgerunda dog not said herevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4whistlepastIndians = indianvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5catchpast · passiveallthus propertyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6killparticipleby the menvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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