Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 24
Then they obeyed and kept on dancing with their eyes closed.
Who acts: Ducks · What happens: obey, keep, close · To what, where: dancing, eyes
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 obeyed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kept | cc |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 dancing | case |
| 7 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dancing | nmod |
| 11 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 eyes | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Ducks = duck | then | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | Ducks = duck not said here | dancing with Ducks's eyes | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on dancing=Location | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | Ducks's eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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