Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 35
He had left his canoe at the other end of the portage, as it was so long to carry it, and he was expecting his aunt to take him across in her canoe.
Who acts: ′, canoe · What happens: leave, be, carry, expect, take · To what, where: canoe, other end, aunt, ′
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 (′, canoe), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 end | amod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 portage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 portage | det |
| 12 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 long | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 long | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 long | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 left | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 long | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 expecting | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 expecting | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 expecting | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 expecting | aux |
| 26 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 28 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 expecting | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 expecting | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 canoe | case |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 canoe | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 35 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | ′ | ′'s canoe | at the other end of the portage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | canoe | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | canoe not said here | canoe | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | expect | past · progressive | ′ | ′'s aunt | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | ′ not said here | ′ | end's canoe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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