Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 22
A little while after this the wigwam started to move again and Gitcikwe′we was back again from his trip out west.
Who acts: little while, Gitcikwe ′, ′ · What happens: start, move, be, trip · To what, where: trip
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 (little while, Gitcikwe ′, ′), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 while | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wigwam | det |
| 7 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 move | mark |
| 10 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 started | xcomp |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 move | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 back | cc |
| 13 | Gitcikwe | Gitcikwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ′ | compound |
| 14 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | nsubj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 back | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 back | cop |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 started | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 back | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 trip | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 trip | nmod:poss |
| 21 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | obl |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 west | advmod |
| 23 | west | west | ADV | _ | 21 trip | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | a little while after this | the wigwam nsubj | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | a little while after this not said here | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Gitcikwe ′ | ′'s trip | again | we nsubj; back property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | trip | ′ | nom trip «act transitive»: poss=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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