Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 31
When Gitcikwe′we heard this, he loaded his flint lock gun to shoot Windigo, for he thought he had come back and was making the noise and concluded that that was the only way to get rid of him.
Who acts: Gitcikwe ′, ′, that · What happens: hear, load, shoot, think, come back, make · To what, where: this, flint lock gun, Windigo, noise, only way · 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 ′, ′, that), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Gitcikwe | Gitcikwe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ′ | compound |
| 3 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 loaded | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loaded | nsubj |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 gun | nmod:poss |
| 11 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gun | compound |
| 12 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gun | compound |
| 13 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loaded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shoot | mark |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gun | acl |
| 16 | Windigo | Windigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 thought | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoot | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 making | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 making | aux |
| 27 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 come | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 noise | det |
| 29 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 making | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 concluded | cc |
| 31 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 making | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 way | mark |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 way | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 way | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 36 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 way | amod |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 concluded | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 get | mark |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 way | acl |
| 40 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 get | xcomp |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 rid | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Gitcikwe ′ | this | we nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | load | past | ′ | ′'s flint lock gun | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | ′ not said here | Windigo | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent windigo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | ′ | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come back | past | ′ | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | make | past · progressive | ′ not said here | the noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 7 | conclude | past | ′ not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | that | the only way | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | get | to-infinitive | ′ not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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