Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 84
They then took the ducks and geese and started off as fast as possible before Wiske·djak should wake up and see them.
Who acts: legs, djak · What happens: take, start off, wake up, see · To what, where: ducks, legs
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 (legs, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ducks | det |
| 5 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 geese | cc |
| 7 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ducks | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 fast | advmod |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 started | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 possible | mark |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fast | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 Wiske | case |
| 16 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 17 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 wake | punct |
| 18 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wake | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wake | aux |
| 20 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 wake | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wake | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | legs = leg | the ducks and geese | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument duck=Destination | |||
| 2 | start off | past | legs = leg not said here | before Wiske | fast property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | wake up | should | djak | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | djak not said here | legs = leg | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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