Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 72
As they drifted quietly in shore, looking sharp to see what curious creature it might be, they came quite close.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: drift, look, see, come · To what, where: shore
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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drifted | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drifted | nsubj |
| 3 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 drifted | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drifted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drifted | advcl |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sharp | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 be | nsubj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 be | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drifted | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 close | advmod |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 came | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past | Indians = indian | shore | quietly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shore=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | Indians = indian not said here | sharp property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Indians = indian not said here | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Indians = indian | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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