Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 75

They proceeded to watch the nets and soon saw three Me·′megwe·‵s·i come out astride of an old log for a canoe, using sticks for paddles.

Who acts: Indians, i · What happens: proceed, watch, see, come out, use · To what, where: nets, Me, sticks

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, i), 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 proceeded	nsubj
2	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 watch	mark
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proceeded	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nets	det
6	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 watch	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proceeded	conj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 Me	nsubj
11	Me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
12	·	·	PUNCT	_	14 megwe	punct
13	′	′	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 megwe	compound
14	megwe	megwe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
15	·	·	PUNCT	_	16 ‵	punct
16	‵	‵	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 megwe	conj
17	s	's	PART	Typo=Yes	16 ‵	case
18	·	·	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
19	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
20	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 megwe	conj
21	out	out	ADV	_	20 come	advmod
22	astride	astride	ADP	_	26 log	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 log	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 log	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 log	amod
26	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 canoe	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 canoe	det
29	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 log	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 using	punct
31	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	advcl
32	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 using	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 paddles	case
34	paddles	paddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 using	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	Indians = indian			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	watch	to-infinitive	Indians = indian not said here	the nets		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
3	see	past	Indians = indian not said here	Me	′ megwe and ‵ obl; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	come out	present	i		astride a old log for a canoe; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	use	gerund	Indians = indian not said here	sticks	for paddles	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for paddle=Eventuality

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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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 75