Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 57
Their mother used to bring home partridges also, but she had no bow or arrows, and the men wondered how she did it, because she often brought home as many as ten birds.
Who acts: mother, men · What happens: use, bring, have, wonder, do · To what, where: home partridges, bow, baby, many
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, men), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 partridges | compound |
| 7 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 bring | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 bow | det |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrows | cc |
| 16 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bow | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wondered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wondered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wondered | nsubj |
| 21 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 used | parataxis |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 did | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wondered | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brought | punct |
| 27 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 brought | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wondered | conj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 many | advmod |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 brought | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 birds | case |
| 35 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 birds | nummod |
| 36 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 many | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | sons's mother | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | sons's mother not said here | home partridges | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument partridge=Destination | ||||
| 3 | have | past | mother | no bow or arrows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | the men | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | past | mother | baby | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | bring | past | mother | many | as ten birds; home, often property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
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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