Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 48
As his canoe neared the village in the evening, all the people ran down to the water’s edge and cried, “Our chief is dead!”
Who acts: canoe, people, chief · What happens: near, run down, cry, be · To what, where: village · 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 (canoe, people, chief), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 neared | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 3 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neared | nsubj |
| 4 | neared | near | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ran | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 village | det |
| 6 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neared | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 neared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 neared | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 edge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 edge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 water | case |
| 20 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ran | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cried | cc |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ran | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dead | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 dead | punct |
| 25 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chief | nmod:poss |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dead | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dead | cop |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cried | ccomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 dead | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | past | Loon's canoe | the village | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run down | past | all people | to the water's edge result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to edge=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | all people not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Our chief | dead 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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