Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 18
At last a Wolverine came along and listened to the girls’ entreaties.
What happens: come along, listen
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Wolverine | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Wolverine | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Wolverine | det |
| 4 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 listened | cc |
| 8 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 entreaties | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girls | det |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 girls | case |
| 13 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 listened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | at a last Wolverine; along property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wolverine=Location | |||||
| 2 | listen | past | to the girls's entreaties | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=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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