Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 93
The more he shouted at them, the more they danced and sang and ran off mocking him.
Who acts: answer, kinds · What happens: shout, dance, sing, run off, mock · To what, where: answer
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 (answer, kinds), 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 | 2 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 shouted | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | nsubj |
| 4 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shouted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 danced | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 more | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 danced | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 danced | nsubj |
| 11 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouted | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sang | cc |
| 13 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 danced | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 danced | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 ran | compound:prt |
| 17 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ran | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mocking | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | past | answer | at kinds = kind | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | kinds = kind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | kinds = kind not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run off | past | kinds = kind not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mock | gerund | kinds = kind not said here | answer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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