Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 77
The three finally reached their windfall tunnel and there they stayed and waited for the Iroquois.
Who acts: three, people · What happens: reach, stay, wait · To what, where: windfall 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 (three, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tunnel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | windfall | windfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tunnel | compound |
| 7 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stayed | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stayed | expl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stayed | nsubj |
| 11 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 waited | cc |
| 13 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stayed | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Iroquois | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Iroquois | det |
| 16 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 waited | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the three | people's windfall tunnel | finally property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | past | people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | people not said here | for the Iroquois | vn exist-47.1 «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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