Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 41
All was dark in the house, as the dancers had left, but he could see that the two girls and the Loon were lying there asleep.
Who acts: All, Diver, two girls · What happens: be, leave, see, lie · To what, where: house, dancers
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 (All, Diver, two 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 dark | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dark | cop |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dark | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dancers | det |
| 10 | dancers | dancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dark | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 see | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 left | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 lying | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girls | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 girls | nummod |
| 21 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lying | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Loon | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Loon | det |
| 24 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 girls | conj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lying | aux |
| 26 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 see | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 lying | advmod |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 lying | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | All | the house | dark property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the dancers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | could | Diver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | the two girls and the Loon | there | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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