Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 72
So that night they rolled their little brother up in a blanket and left early in the night, unknown to their mother.
Who acts: people · What happens: roll up, leave · To what, where: little brother, blanket
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 rolled | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rolled | nsubj |
| 5 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rolled | compound:prt |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 blanket | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blanket | det |
| 12 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rolled | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 blanket | conj |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 left | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unknown | punct |
| 20 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blanket | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unknown | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll up | past | people | people's little brother | a blanket | night | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brother=Theme in blanket=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | leave | participle | people not said here | night | early property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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