Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 76
The Indians pursued them, the fairies meanwhile hiding their faces.
Who acts: Indians, fairies · What happens: pursue, hide · To what, where: nets, faces
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, fairies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Indians | det |
| 2 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursued | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fairies | det |
| 7 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hiding | nsubj |
| 8 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 9 hiding | advmod |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pursued | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 faces | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hiding | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the Indians | nets = net | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the fairies | Indians's faces | meanwhile property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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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