Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 21
When they recovered consciousness, everything was still in the wigwam, and their father had gone out west, taking his captive with him.
Who acts: children, everything, father · What happens: recover, be, go out, take · To what, where: consciousness, wigwam, captive
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, everything, father), 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 | 3 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recovered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wigwam | punct |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 wigwam | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wigwam | cop |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 wigwam | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wigwam | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wigwam | det |
| 11 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consciousness | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gone | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | aux |
| 17 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 recovered | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 gone | compound:prt |
| 19 | west | west | ADV | _ | 17 gone | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 taking | punct |
| 21 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gone | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 captive | nmod:poss |
| 23 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 taking | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 taking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | children = child | consciousness and the wigwam | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | everything | the wigwam | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go out | past · perfect | children's father | west property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | children's father not said here | father's captive | with father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=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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