Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 43
The “Hell-diver” was seized with anger and went swiftly back to his wigwam, where he heated a piece of iron until it was red hot.
Who acts: Diver, piece · What happens: seize, go back, heat, be · To what, where: Hell diver, piece
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, piece), 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 | 5 diver | det |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 diver | punct |
| 3 | Hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 diver | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hell | punct |
| 5 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 diver | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | aux:pass |
| 8 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 anger | case |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seized | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seized | conj |
| 13 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 wigwam | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heated | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 heated | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heated | nsubj |
| 21 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wigwam | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heated | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 iron | case |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 hot | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hot | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 hot | cop |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hot | amod |
| 30 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heated | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the Hell diver | with anger | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | to Diver's wigwam result; swiftly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wigwam=Result | |||||
| 3 | heat | past | Diver | a piece of iron | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | piece | hot property | 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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