Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 81
As one by one the Iroquois looked through the hole, the sons shot them, the arrow falling back through the hole so that they could use it again.
Who acts: Iroquois, sons, arrow · What happens: look, shoot, fall back, use · To what, where: people, hole
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 (Iroquois, sons, arrow), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 looked | obl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Iroquois | det |
| 6 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shot | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sons | det |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shot | nsubj |
| 14 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shot | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arrow | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arrow | det |
| 18 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shot | obl |
| 19 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 arrow | acl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 falling | advmod |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hole | det |
| 23 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 falling | obl |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 use | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 use | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 use | aux |
| 28 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shot | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 use | obj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 use | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Iroquois | as one by one; through the hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | the sons | people | the arrow obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall back | gerund | the arrow not said here | the hole | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hole=Location | ||||
| 4 | use | could | sons = son | hole | again | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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