Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 71
They had discovered a place the day before where trees had fallen down and snow had covered them, thus making a tunnel.
Who acts: people, trees · What happens: discover, fall down, cover, make · To what, where: place, snow, tunnel
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, trees), 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 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | aux |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 fallen | mark |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 fallen | advmod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fallen | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fallen | aux |
| 12 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 discovered | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 fallen | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fallen | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 covered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 making | punct |
| 20 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 21 making | advmod |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 fallen | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tunnel | det |
| 23 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · perfect | people | a place | day | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 2 | fall down | past · perfect | trees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cover | past · perfect · passive | snow | people obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | trees not said here | a tunnel | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tunnel=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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