Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 75
Then the same little cry sounded again, “Whun!” and he stopped to look around, but couldn’t see anything.
Who acts: same little cry, cry · What happens: sound, stop, look around, not see · To what, where: Whun, anything
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 (same little cry, cry), 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 | 6 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cry | amod |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounded | nsubj |
| 6 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 sounded | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whun | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whun | punct |
| 10 | Whun | whun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sounded | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whun | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whun | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stopped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stopped | nsubj |
| 15 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sounded | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stopped | xcomp |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 look | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | advmod |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sounded | conj |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the same little cry | Whun | then; again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stop | past | cry | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look around | to-infinitive | cry not said here | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | the same little cry not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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