Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 15
As the ducks came flying by overhead, they heard his song and came down to join the party.
Who acts: ducks, djak · What happens: come, fly, hear, come down, join, sing · To what, where: song, party
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 (ducks, djak), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ducks | det |
| 3 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | advcl |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 overhead | case |
| 7 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 5 flying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 song | nmod:poss |
| 12 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 join | mark |
| 17 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 join | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the ducks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the ducks not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by overhead=Location | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | Ducks = duck | djak's song | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come down | past | Ducks = duck not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | join | to-infinitive | Ducks = duck not said here | the party | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sing | djak | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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