Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 54
It was winter and the sons had two rabbit snares’ trails, one to the east and the other to the north, and they went to different lines on different days.
Who acts: family, sons, two rabbit · What happens: be, have, snare, go · To what, where: winter, trails, different lines
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 (family, sons, two rabbit), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 winter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 winter | cop |
| 3 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 winter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rabbit | nummod |
| 9 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snares | nsubj |
| 10 | snares | snare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 trails | punct |
| 12 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snares | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trails | appos |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 east | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 east | det |
| 17 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 north | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 north | det |
| 23 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 other | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 snares | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 lines | case |
| 29 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lines | amod |
| 30 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 days | amod |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lines | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 winter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | family | winter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the sons | winter not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | snare | present | two rabbit | trails | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | sons = son | different lines on different days | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to line=Initial_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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