Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 22
It had dived and crossed two miles under water to Seal island and gone into a big rock there.
What happens: dive, cross, seal, go · To what, where: seal, two miles, water, island, big rock
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dived | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dived | aux |
| 3 | dived | dive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crossed | cc |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dived | conj |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 miles | nummod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crossed | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Seal | case |
| 11 | Seal | seal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dived | advcl |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Seal | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gone | cc |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dived | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gone | obl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 rock | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | past · perfect · passive | seal | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross | participle | two miles | water | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seal | infinitive | island | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go | participle | a big rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into rock=Initial_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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