Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 27
It was a very pretty wigwam and looked so inviting to the tired girls that they went inside to rest.
Who acts: wigwam, Girls · What happens: be, look, invite, go, rest · To what, where: pretty 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 (wigwam, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wigwam | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wigwam | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wigwam | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wigwam | amod |
| 6 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wigwam | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 inviting | advmod |
| 10 | inviting | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 girls | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girls | amod |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inviting | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 inviting | advcl |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rest | mark |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wigwam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wigwam | a pretty wigwam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | wigwam not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | invite | gerund | wigwam not said here | to the tired girls | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Girls = girl | inside property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | rest | to-infinitive | Girls = girl not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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