Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 9
Then the family started to take the portage which led across to the big lake containing the islands.
Who acts: family, portage, big lake · What happens: start, take, lead, contain · To what, where: portage, islands
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 (family, portage, big lake), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 started | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 started | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portage | det |
| 8 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 portage | acl:relcl |
| 11 | across | across | ADV | _ | 10 led | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lake | amod |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 16 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 lake | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 containing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the family | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the family not said here | the portage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the portage | to the big lake; across property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to lake=Patient | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | the big lake not said here | the islands | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot island=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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