Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 83
Finally they decided to come out, and one of the sons went out first to look around, but he could see no one.
Who acts: sons, one, last · What happens: decide, come out, go out, look around, see · To what, where: one
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, one, 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 went | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sons | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sons | det |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | sons = son | finally property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | sons = son not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | one of the sons | first, out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look around | to-infinitive | one of the sons not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | could | last | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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