Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 124
After a while he saw a string of little ants going back and forth from under a log.
Who acts: thing, little ants · What happens: see, go back · To what, where: string, log
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, little ants), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 string | det |
| 7 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ants | case |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ants | amod |
| 10 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 string | nmod |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ants | acl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 going | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forth | cc |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 back | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 log | case |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 log | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 log | det |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | thing | a string of little ants | while | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go back | gerund | little ants not said here | a log | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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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