Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 154
And also, when the hunting dogs suddenly go off from camp and run over the ice, the hunters say the dogs hear the beavers whistling.
Who acts: hunting dogs, hunters, dogs, beavers · What happens: go off, run, say, hear, whistle · To what, where: camp, ice, beavers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunting dogs, hunters, dogs, beavers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 go | cc |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 go | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dogs | det |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dogs | compound |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 go | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 camp | case |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 ice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ice | det |
| 17 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunters | det |
| 20 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 say | nsubj |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dogs | det |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 beavers | det |
| 26 | beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hear | obj |
| 27 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 beavers | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | present | the hunting dogs | camp | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | present | the hunting dogs not said here | the ice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ice=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the hunters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear | present | the dogs | the beavers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beaver=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | whistle | gerund | the beavers not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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