Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 31
A Beaver was paddling his canoe down the stream, but wouldn’t take the girls in.
Who acts: Beaver · What happens: paddle, not take in · To what, where: canoe, stream, girls
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 (Beaver), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Beaver | det |
| 2 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 paddling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paddling | aux |
| 4 | paddling | paddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paddling | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paddling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 take | advmod |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 paddling | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girls | det |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 take | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paddling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paddle | past · progressive | a Beaver | Beaver's canoe | the stream | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme down stream=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | not take in | would | a Beaver not said here | the girls | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination |
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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