Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 157
On a cold day in winter one of the men said he was going to track a moose, and left on his snowshoes.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, go, track, leave · To what, where: moose, snowshoes · 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 (man), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 winter | case |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 winter | flat |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 track | mark |
| 16 | track | track | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 moose | det |
| 18 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 track | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 snowshoes | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 snowshoes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | snowshoes | snowshoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | man | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | track | to-infinitive | man not said here | a moose | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moose=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | man's snowshoes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on snowshoe=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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