Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 71
Seeing something strange-looking near the fire—they could not well make out what—they paddled near.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: see, look, not make out, paddle · To what, where: something
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 (Indians), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 make | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Seeing | conj |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 make | compound:prt |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 paddled | obj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 paddled | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 paddled | nsubj |
| 19 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | advcl |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 19 paddled | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | near the fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent near fire=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not make out | could | Indians = indian | well property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | paddle | past | Indians = indian | what obj; near property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent what=Location |
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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