Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 32
Next a Loon, who was the king of all water animals, came along in his canoe, but he also refused to take them with him.
Who acts: Loon · What happens: be, come along, refuse, not take · To what, where: king, canoe, 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 (Loon), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 Loon | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Loon | det |
| 3 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 king | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Loon | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 animals | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 animals | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 animals | compound |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Loon | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 canoe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 refused | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 refused | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 refused | nsubj |
| 22 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 refused | advmod |
| 23 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 refused | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a Loon | the king | of all water animals | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come along | past | a Loon | Loon's canoe | along property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | |||
| 3 | refuse | past | Loon | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not take | to-infinitive | Loon not said here | Girls = girl | with Loon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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