Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 137
By this time the old Partridge had got home to his young and found them all covered with black mud.
Who acts: old Partridge · What happens: get, find, cover · To what, where: partridges, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Partridge), 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 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Partridge | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Partridge | amod |
| 6 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 young | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 young | nmod:poss |
| 12 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mud | case |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mud | amod |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | the old Partridge | time | to Wiske's young result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to young=Result | |||
| 2 | find | past | the old Partridge not said here | partridges = partridge | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle · passive | all | with black mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=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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