Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 34
He was very kind and took the two girls down to the lake where he dwelt and told them that they might sleep in his wigwam that night.
Who acts: Diver, Girls · What happens: be, take, dwell, tell, sleep · To what, where: two girls, lake, Girls, wigwam · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Diver, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girls | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 girls | nummod |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 dwelt | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dwelt | nsubj |
| 16 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lake | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 sleep | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sleep | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sleep | aux |
| 23 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 told | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wigwam | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | obl |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sleep | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Diver | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Diver not said here | the two girls | the lake | down property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to lake=Destination | ||
| 3 | dwell | past | Diver | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Diver not said here | Girls = girl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sleep | might | Girls = girl | Diver's wigwam | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wigwam=Location |
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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