Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 52
At that time there were people living, four in number: a woman, a young baby who could hardly walk, and two sons who were grown-up men.
Who acts: people, young baby · What happens: be, live, walk, grow up · To what, where: four, number, two sons
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 (people, young baby), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 people | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 four | punct |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 living | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 number | case |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 living | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 woman | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 number | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 baby | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 baby | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 baby | amod |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | appos |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 walk | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 walk | aux |
| 21 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 22 walk | advmod |
| 22 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 baby | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sons | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sons | cc |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sons | nummod |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woman | appos |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 grown | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 grown | aux:pass |
| 29 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sons | acl:relcl |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 up | punct |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 grown | compound:prt |
| 32 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 grown | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | people | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | people not said here | four | number | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location | |||
| 3 | walk | could | a young baby | hardly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow up | past · passive | two sons | men obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Product |
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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