Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 39

While the two girls were dancing, the “Hell-diver” returned and lay down under the blankets, but the logs happened to be partly rotten and were filled with ants, so that it wasn’t long before he discovered the trick that had been played on him.

Who acts: two girls, logs, bed, Diver · What happens: dance, return, lay down, happen, be, fill · To what, where: Hell diver, blankets, trick

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 (two girls, logs, bed, Diver), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 dancing	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 girls	nummod
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dancing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	aux
6	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 diver	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 diver	det
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 diver	punct
10	Hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 diver	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Hell	punct
12	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dancing	obj
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 diver	punct
14	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 dancing	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lay	cc
16	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 returned	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 lay	compound:prt
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 blankets	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blankets	det
20	blankets	blanket	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 happened	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 happened	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 logs	det
24	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 happened	nsubj
25	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dancing	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	29 rotten	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 rotten	cop
28	partly	partly	ADV	_	29 rotten	advmod
29	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 happened	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 filled	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 filled	aux:pass
32	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 rotten	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 ants	case
34	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 filled	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 long	punct
36	so	so	ADV	_	41 long	advmod
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 long	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 long	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 long	cop
40	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 long	advmod
41	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 dancing	advmod
42	before	before	SCONJ	_	44 discovered	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 discovered	nsubj
44	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 long	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 trick	det
46	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 discovered	obj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 played	nsubj:pass
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 played	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 played	aux:pass
50	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 trick	acl:relcl
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 played	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dancing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dance	past · progressive	the two girls	the Hell diver			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location diver=Theme
2	return	participle	the two girls not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lay down	infinitive	the two girls not said here		the blankets		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under blanket=Destination
4	happen	past	the logs				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	the logs not said here			partly, rotten property	tree rules
6	fill	past · passive	the logs not said here			with ants	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with ant=Instrument
7	not is	past	bed			long property	tree rules
8	discover	past	Diver	the trick			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic
9	play	past · perfect · passive		the trick		on Diver	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 39