Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 3
When Lynx reached home, he was unable to find his wives, but he knew they were somewhere near.
Who acts: Lynx, wives · What happens: reach, be, find, know · To what, where: wives · 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 (Lynx, wives), 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 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unable | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 unable | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unable | cop |
| 8 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 unable | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 unable | parataxis |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 near | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 near | cop |
| 19 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 near | advmod |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Lynx | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Lynx | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Lynx not said here | Lynx's wives | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Lynx | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | wives = wife | near, somewhere property | tree rules |
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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