Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 21
The kind Wolverine went off on his errand, and, as soon as he was out of sight, the two girls made their departure.
Who acts: kind Wolverine, Lynx, two girls, Girls · What happens: go off, be, make, depart · To what, where: errand, sight, departure
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: who acts (kind Wolverine, Lynx, two girls, Girls), 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 | 3 Wolverine | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wolverine | amod |
| 3 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 errand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 errand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 made | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 sight | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sight | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sight | cop |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sight | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 girls | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 girls | nummod |
| 23 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 departure | nmod:poss |
| 26 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the kind Wolverine | Lynx's errand | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Lynx | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the two girls | Girls's departure | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Product | |||
| 4 | depart | Girls = girl | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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