Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 54
In the morning the lake was dry and all the villagers went in pursuit.
Who acts: lake, villagers · What happens: be, go · To what, where: pursuit
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 (lake, villagers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dry | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dry | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dry | cop |
| 7 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 villagers | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 villagers | det |
| 11 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dry | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pursuit | case |
| 14 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lake | morning | dry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | all villagers | pursuit | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location |
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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