Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 46
When the murdered Loon was discovered, his murderer was far away in the bush and had already caught one deer in his trap.
Who acts: murderer · What happens: murder, discover, be, catch · To what, where: murdered Loon, bush, one deer, trap
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 (murderer), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 discovered | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Loon | det |
| 3 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Loon | amod |
| 4 | Loon | Loon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 discovered | aux:pass |
| 6 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 away | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 murderer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 away | cop |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 discovered | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 bush | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 caught | advmod |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 discovered | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 deer | nummod |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 trap | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trap | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murder | participle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | the murdered Loon | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Loon's murderer | the bush | away, far property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect | one deer | Loon's trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=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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