Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 76
The third time he started to eat, the same cry sounded, and then he got up and hunted for the cause, for it bothered him and was spoiling his good time.
Who acts: cry, same cry, cause · What happens: start, eat, sound, get up, hunt, bother · To what, where: third time, cry
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 (cry, same cry, cause), 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 | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounded | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 started | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cry | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cry | amod |
| 11 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sounded | nsubj |
| 12 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sounded | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 got | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hunted | cc |
| 20 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 got | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 cause | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cause | det |
| 23 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunted | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bothered | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 bothered | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bothered | nsubj |
| 27 | bothered | bother | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bothered | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 spoiling | cc |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 spoiling | aux |
| 31 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 bothered | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 time | nmod:poss |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spoiling | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | cry | the third time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | cry not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sound | past | the same cry | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | cry | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | hunt | participle | cry not said here | for the cause | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for cause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bother | past | cause | cry | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | spoil | past · progressive | cause not said here | time | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: 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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