Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 30
Shortly after they had gotten up, they heard a great noise of shouting in the direction of the end of the portage from where they had come and which was just lost to view.
Who acts: mi, great noise · What happens: get up, hear, shout, come, lose, view · To what, where: great noise, direction
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 (mi, great noise), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 gotten | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 gotten | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gotten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gotten | aux |
| 5 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 gotten | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gotten | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 noise | amod |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 shouting | case |
| 14 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 noise | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 direction | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 direction | det |
| 17 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 direction | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 portage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 portage | det |
| 23 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 come | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 portage | acl:relcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lost | cc |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 lost | aux:pass |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 33 lost | advmod |
| 33 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 come | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 view | mark |
| 35 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 lost | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past · perfect | mi | shortly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | mi | a great noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | a great noise not said here | the direction of the end of the portage | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | mi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | which nsubj:pass | 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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