Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 28
Soon a Bird, who was the owner, came along and demanded their business in his wigwam.
Who acts: Bird · What happens: be, come along, demand · To what, where: owner, business, 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 (Bird), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Bird | det |
| 3 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 owner | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 owner | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 owner | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owner | det |
| 8 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Bird | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 owner | punct |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 demanded | cc |
| 13 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 business | nmod:poss |
| 15 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 demanded | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wigwam | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 demanded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Bird | the owner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | a Bird | along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | a Bird not said here | Girls's business | bird's wigwam | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme business=Precondition |
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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