Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 21

He sat down on one side of the fire near the door and they all began dancing around.

Who acts: lot, Ducks · What happens: sit down, begin, dance around · To what, where: one side

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 (lot, Ducks), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
10	near	near	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 began	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 began	advmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
17	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 began	xcomp
18	around	around	ADV	_	17 dancing	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	lot	one side of the fire	near the door	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	begin	past	Ducks = duck			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance around	gerund	Ducks = duck not said here		around property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 21