Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 191
They all kept shouting and making a great pretence to get after him, all the time laughing at Wiske·djak and splashing with their paddles as though trying to keep up with him.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: keep, shout, make, get, laugh, splash · To what, where: great pretence, djak, Wiske
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 (Wiske), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 kept | advmod |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 making | cc |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 shouting | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pretence | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pretence | amod |
| 9 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 making | advcl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Wiske | case |
| 20 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 laughing | obl |
| 21 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 22 djak | punct |
| 22 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laughing | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 splashing | cc |
| 24 | splashing | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 laughing | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 paddles | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 paddles | nmod:poss |
| 27 | paddles | paddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 splashing | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 splashing | advmod |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 trying | mark |
| 30 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 splashing | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 keep | mark |
| 32 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trying | xcomp |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 keep | compound:prt |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 keep | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Wiske | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | Wiske not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Wiske not said here | a great pretence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pretence=Product | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | after djak | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | Wiske not said here | djak | Wiske | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | splash | gerund | Wiske not said here | with Wiske's paddles | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with paddle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | try | gerund | Wiske not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | keep up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | with djak | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
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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