Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 103
Now, before long, his first wife’s family heard that Ciŋgəbis was alive and living with another woman.
Who acts: family, Ciŋgəbis · What happens: hear, be, live · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Ciŋgəbis), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 heard | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 long | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Now | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 alive | mark |
| 13 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 alive | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 alive | cop |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heard | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 living | cc |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 alive | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 woman | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 living | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Wiske's first wife's family | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Ciŋgəbis | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | Ciŋgəbis not said here | with another woman | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with woman=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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