Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 163
When they reached the fire they discovered that the hunter had rolled himself up in the green hide to sleep, and during the night it had frozen around him and he had been unable to get out.
Who acts: wives, hunter · What happens: reach, discover, roll up, sleep, freeze, be · To what, where: fire, hunter, green hide
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, hunter), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fire | det |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 rolled | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rolled | aux |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 discovered | ccomp |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 rolled | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 rolled | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hide | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hide | det |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hide | amod |
| 18 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rolled | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sleep | mark |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hide | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 frozen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 frozen | cc |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 frozen | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 frozen | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 frozen | aux |
| 28 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 discovered | conj |
| 29 | around | around | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 frozen | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 unable | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 unable | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 unable | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 unable | cop |
| 35 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 frozen | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 get | mark |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 unable | xcomp |
| 38 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 get | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | wives = wife | the fire | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | wives = wife | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | roll up | past · perfect · passive | the hunter | the green hide | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme himself=Result | ||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | freeze | past · perfect · passive | fire | night | around hunter | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | hunter | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get out | to-infinitive | hunter not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «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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