Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 26
The girls walked on swiftly until they came to a little wigwam built in the bush.
Who acts: girls · What happens: walk on, come, build · To what, where: little wigwam
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 (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 | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 walked | compound:prt |
| 5 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wigwam | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wigwam | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wigwam | amod |
| 12 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wigwam | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | the girls | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Girls = girl | a little wigwam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wigwam=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | build | participle | a little wigwam not said here | in the bush | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bush=Attribute |
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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