Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 83
Then the people went away to another place to camp, as it was getting spring, but the young man stayed back.
Who acts: people, place, young man · What happens: go away, camp, get, stay back · To what, where: place
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 (people, place, young 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 camp | mark |
| 10 | camp | camp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 place | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 getting | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 getting | aux |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stayed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 stayed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stayed | nsubj |
| 22 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 stayed | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the people | another place | then | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | camp | to-infinitive | the people not said here | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | place | spring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | stay back | past | the young man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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