Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 95
By the time all the meat was gone, a little breeze arose and the tree let him go.
Who acts: meat, little breeze, tree, breeze · What happens: be, arise, let, go · To what, where: breeze
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 (meat, little breeze, tree, breeze), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 meat | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meat | det |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | cop |
| 8 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 arose | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 breeze | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 breeze | amod |
| 12 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arose | nsubj |
| 13 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 let | nsubj |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 arose | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all meat | time | gone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arise | past | a little breeze | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the tree | breeze | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | breeze not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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