Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 33
When they turned the point, they saw a young man standing right in the portage.
Who acts: mi, young man · What happens: turn, see, stand · To what, where: point, young man, portage
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, young man), 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 point | det |
| 5 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 standing | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 portage | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 portage | det |
| 16 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | mi | the point | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | mi | a young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a young man not said here | the portage | right property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in portage=Location |
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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