Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 80
One of the Iroquois dug a hole in the snow above the tunnel and peeped down to see if the three were there.
Who acts: One, three · What happens: dig, peep down, see, be · To what, where: hole, snow
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 (One, three), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Iroquois | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Iroquois | det |
| 4 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obl |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 snow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 snow | det |
| 10 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 tunnel | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tunnel | det |
| 13 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peeped | cc |
| 15 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 peeped | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 peeped | advcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 there | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 three | det |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 there | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 there | cop |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | One | a hole | the snow | of the Iroquois; above the tunnel | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in snow=Location | ||
| 2 | peep down | past | One not said here | down property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | One not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the three | there property | tree rules |
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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