Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 160
They waited until morning and then, taking up his trail, they tracked him to where he had shot a moose and farther on to where he had skinned it.
Who acts: wives, man · What happens: wait, take up, track, shoot, skin · To what, where: trail, man, moose
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 (wives, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | until | until | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 then | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 waited | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 taking | punct |
| 8 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 taking | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 trail | nmod:poss |
| 11 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taking | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tracked | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tracked | nsubj |
| 14 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tracked | obj |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 20 shot | mark |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 shot | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shot | aux |
| 20 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tracked | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 moose | det |
| 22 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shot | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 farther | cc |
| 24 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 shot | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 30 skinned | mark |
| 26 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 30 skinned | mark |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 skinned | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 skinned | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 skinned | aux |
| 30 | skinned | skin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 shot | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 skinned | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | wives = wife | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take up | gerund | wives = wife not said here | man's trail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | ||||
| 3 | track | past | wives = wife | man | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | man | a moose obj; far property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination moose=Theme | ||||
| 5 | skin | past · perfect | man | moose | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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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