Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 82
They killed nearly all of them, and at last no more Iroquois faces appeared above the hole, but the sons could hear crying.
Who acts: sons, last · What happens: kill, appear, hear, cry · To what, where: all, 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 (sons, last), 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 | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 all | advmod |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 killed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 faces | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 faces | amod |
| 13 | Iroquois | iroquois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 faces | compound |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 last | obl |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | parataxis |
| 16 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hear | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 hear | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sons | det |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hear | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hear | aux |
| 24 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 appeared | conj |
| 25 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hear | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | sons = son | all of people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | last more Iroquois faces | the hole | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above hole=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | could | the sons | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | the sons not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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