Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 56
The waters came running in and all the people were turned into water animals, but became friends with one another.
Who acts: waters · What happens: come, run, turn, become · To what, where: people, friends
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 (waters), 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 | 2 waters | det |
| 2 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 running | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 turned | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 animals | compound |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 became | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 became | obl |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | fixed |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the waters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the waters not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | all people | into water animals result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into animal=Result | ||||
| 4 | become | past | the waters not said here | friends | with one | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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