Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 36
The girls, however, couldn’t go to sleep, for they heard music and knew that a dance must be going on.
Who acts: girls, dance · What happens: not go, hear, know, go on · To what, where: sleep, music · 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 (girls, dance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girls | det |
| 2 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girls | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heard | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 heard | case |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | parataxis |
| 15 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 going | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dance | det |
| 20 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 going | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | could | the girls | sleep | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Girls = girl | music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Girls = girl not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go on | must · progressive | a dance | vn function-105.2.1 «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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