Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 40
At once he went to the Loon’s house, thinking that the girls had been to the dance.
Who acts: Diver, girls · What happens: go, think, be · To what, where: house · 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Loon | det |
| 7 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Loon | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 dance | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girls | det |
| 14 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dance | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dance | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 dance | cop |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 dance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dance | det |
| 19 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Diver | the Loon's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Diver not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | the girls | to the dance | tree rules |
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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