Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 81
The Indians then threw the knife at the rock and it went right through to the inside to its owner.
Who acts: Indians, knife · What happens: throw, go · To what, where: knife, rock, inside
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, knife), 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 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 threw | advmod |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knife | det |
| 6 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 14 through | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 inside | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 inside | det |
| 17 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 owner | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 owner | nmod:poss |
| 20 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Indians | the knife | the rock | then | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knife=Theme at rock=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | knife | the inside | to knife's owner; through property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to inside=Initial_Location to owner=Destination |
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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