Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 172
Tunc membrum virile cepit, without telling his wife what had happened, and went off on a moose hunt.
Who acts: membrum virile cepit · What happens: tell, happen, go off · To what, where: wife, moose hunt, membrum virile cepit · 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 (membrum virile cepit), 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 | Tunc | Tunc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cepit | nsubj |
| 2 | membrum | membrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cepit | compound |
| 3 | virile | virile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cepit | amod |
| 4 | cepit | cepit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 telling | punct |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 telling | mark |
| 7 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 cepit | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 telling | obj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 telling | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cepit | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hunt | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hunt | det |
| 19 | moose | moose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunt | compound |
| 20 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cepit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | membrum virile cepit Tunc not said here | Tunc's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | a moose hunt | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on hunt=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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