Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 59
They never went with their mother to where she had her snares, but they were continually asking her how she caught the partridges.
Who acts: sons, mother · What happens: not go, have, ask, catch, snare · To what, where: snares, mother, partridges · 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 (sons, mother), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 where | case |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 snares | nmod:poss |
| 12 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asking | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 asking | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asking | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asking | aux |
| 17 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 18 asking | advmod |
| 18 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asking | obj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 caught | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 caught | nsubj |
| 22 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asking | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 partridges | det |
| 24 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 caught | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past | sons = son | with sons's mother | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with mother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | have | past | mother | mother's snares | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | sons = son | mother | continually property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | catch | past | mother | the partridges | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | snare | mother | nom snare «cognition 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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