Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 46
When he lost sight of them, he went back into his wigwam and looked over what birds he had killed.
Who acts: djak · What happens: lose, go back, look over, kill, sight · To what, where: sight, wigwam, birds
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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 lost | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 4 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lost | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sight | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lost | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 wigwam | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 looked | compound:prt |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 looked | obj |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | djak | sight of birds | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | djak | djak's wigwam | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look over | past | djak not said here | what obj | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · perfect · passive | birds | djak nsubj:pass | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sight | birds = bird | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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