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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Beavers | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Beavers | amod |
| 4 | Beavers | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 places | case |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 places | amod |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 ice | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ice | det |
| 11 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whistled | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 whistled | nsubj |
| 21 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 caught | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 caught | aux:pass |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 caught | advmod |
| 26 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 whistled | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 killed | cc |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 caught | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 men | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 men | det |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 killed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young Beavers | the ice | to different places | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | Indians = indian | a dog | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | a dog not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | whistle | past | Indians = indian | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | catch | past · passive | all | thus property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | kill | participle | by the men | vn 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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