Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 13
They reached the other end of the portage and got into the canoe and paddled out to one of the islands to a place where the end of the portage, from which they had just come out, was lost to view.
Who acts: children · What happens: reach, get, paddle out, come out, lose, view · To what, where: other end, canoe, one, portage, end
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | amod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 portage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portage | det |
| 8 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 canoe | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 canoe | det |
| 13 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 paddled | cc |
| 15 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reached | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 paddled | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 paddled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 islands | nmod |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 lost | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 portage | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 portage | det |
| 30 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 end | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 come | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 portage | acl:relcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 end | punct |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lost | aux:pass |
| 41 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 place | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 view | mark |
| 43 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 lost | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | children = child | the other end of the portage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | children = child not said here | the canoe | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into canoe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | paddle out | participle | children = child not said here | one of the islands to a place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to one=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | come out | past · perfect | children = child | the portage | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | the end of the portage | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | view | to-infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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