Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 156
There were two men living in a camp with two women and the rest of the band.
Who acts: two men · What happens: be, live · To what, where: camp
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 (two men), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 men | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 women | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 women | nummod |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 living | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rest | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 women | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 band | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 band | det |
| 17 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rest | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two men | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | two men not said here | a camp | with two women and the rest of the band | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
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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