Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 28
Then he followed the track to the lower end of the portage where he had already been, but nobody was there.
Who acts: djak, nobody · What happens: follow, be · To what, where: track, lower end
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 (djak, nobody), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 track | det |
| 5 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 8 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 end | amod |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 portage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 portage | det |
| 12 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 been | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 been | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 been | aux |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 been | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 portage | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 there | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 there | cc |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 there | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 there | cop |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | djak | the track | to the lower end of the portage; then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent track=Theme to end=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | nobody | there 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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