Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 55
The mother would attend to the snares and leave the baby, wrapped in a rabbit skin blanket, alone in the camp, while the two sons would hunt and look around for game, having only bows and arrows.
Who acts: mother, two sons · What happens: attend, leave, wrap, hunt, look around, have · To what, where: baby, skin blanket, bows
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 (mother, two sons), 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 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attend | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 attend | aux |
| 4 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 snares | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snares | det |
| 7 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 attend | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attend | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrapped | punct |
| 13 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 baby | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 blanket | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blanket | det |
| 16 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | compound |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blanket | compound |
| 18 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 alone | punct |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 wrapped | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 camp | det |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 alone | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hunt | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 hunt | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sons | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 sons | nummod |
| 28 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hunt | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hunt | aux |
| 30 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 attend | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 look | cc |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 hunt | conj |
| 33 | around | around | ADV | _ | 32 look | advmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 game | case |
| 35 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 having | punct |
| 37 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 look | advcl |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 bows | advmod |
| 39 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 having | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 arrows | cc |
| 41 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 bows | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | would | the mother | to the snares | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to snare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | the mother not said here | the baby | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | the baby not said here | a skin blanket | alone property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in blanket=Destination | |||
| 4 | hunt | would | the two sons | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look around | infinitive | the two sons not said here | for game; around property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | the two sons not said here | bows and arrows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient |
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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