Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 47
The characters of these pictures would tell what had happened, so that if the advance party never returned to their people, some record would at least be left behind of their journey.”
Who acts: characters, advance party, people · What happens: tell, happen, not return, leave, journey · To what, where: record, least · 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 (characters, advance party, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 characters | det |
| 2 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pictures | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pictures | det |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 characters | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 left | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 left | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 left | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 returned | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 16 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 party | compound |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 returned | advmod |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 people | nmod:poss |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 record | det |
| 25 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 left | aux |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 least | case |
| 28 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 left | obl |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 left | aux:pass |
| 30 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tell | advcl |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 34 journey | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 behind | fixed |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 journey | nmod:poss |
| 34 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 left | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | would | the characters of this pictures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not return a condition, not said to happen | past | the advance party | to pictures's people result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result | ||||
| 4 | leave | would · passive | some record | least | behind people's journey | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at least=Location | |||
| 5 | journey | people | nom journey «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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