Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 45
Knowing that he had killed the Loon and that the murder would soon be discovered on the next day, he made ready to go on a hunting trip and told his old grandmother that he’d be back on the following evening.
Who acts: Diver · What happens: know, kill, discover, make, go, tell · To what, where: Diver, murder, hunting trip, old grandmother · 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), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 made | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 killed | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Loon | det |
| 7 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Loon | cc |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 discovered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 murder | det |
| 11 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 discovered | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 discovered | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 discovered | aux:pass |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 made | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ready | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 trip | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trip | det |
| 28 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 trip | compound |
| 29 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 grandmother | amod |
| 34 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 told | iobj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 ’d | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ’d | nsubj |
| 37 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 told | advcl |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 back | cop |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 ’d | advmod |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 evening | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 evening | det |
| 42 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 evening | amod |
| 43 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ’d | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Diver not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Diver | the Loon obl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | would · passive | the murder | day | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 4 | make | past | Diver | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | Diver not said here | a hunting trip | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | Diver not said here | Diver's old grandmother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandmother=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Diver | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is | infinitive | back property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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