Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 80
The Indians then took a knife from this fairy and the rest disappeared, riding their log through the rock wall to the inside, where they could be heard crying, as this was where they lived.
Who acts: Indians, rest, this · What happens: take, disappear, ride, hear, cry, be · To what, where: knife, log, rock wall, Indians
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, rest, this), 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 | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 fairy | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 13 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 riding | punct |
| 15 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 disappeared | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 log | nmod:poss |
| 17 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 wall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wall | compound |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 inside | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 inside | det |
| 24 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riding | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heard | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 heard | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 heard | aux:pass |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 riding | parataxis |
| 31 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 heard | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lived | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 where | mark |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 where | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 where | cop |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 lived | advmod |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lived | nsubj |
| 38 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Indians | a knife | then | from this fairy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from fairy=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | disappear | past | the rest | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | the rest not said here | Indians's log | the rock wall | to the inside | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent log=Theme through wall=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | hear | could · passive | Indians = indian | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | this | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live | past | Indians = indian | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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