Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 10
When Gitcikwe′we took the portage, he sent his wife and children ahead and told them to hurry on as fast as they could, while he would follow behind with the canoe.
Who acts: Gitcikwe ′, portage · What happens: take, send, tell, hurry on, follow · To what, where: portage, wife, children · 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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gitcikwe ′, portage), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | Gitcikwe | Gitcikwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ′ | compound |
| 3 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 portage | det |
| 7 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wife | conj |
| 15 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 10 sent | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hurry | mark |
| 20 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 told | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hurry | compound:prt |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 hurry | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 could | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fast | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 follow | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 follow | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 follow | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 follow | aux |
| 31 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hurry | conj |
| 32 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 31 follow | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 canoe | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 canoe | det |
| 35 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 follow | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gitcikwe ′ | the portage | we nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portage=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | portage | portage's wife and children | ahead property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | portage not said here | children = child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | hurry on not said to happen | to-infinitive | portage not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | follow | would | portage | with the canoe; behind property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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