Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 147
Before long some of the ants got warmed up by his body and began crawling over him.
Who acts: body · What happens: warm up, begin, crawl · To what, where: some
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 (body), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 some | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 some | amod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 warmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ants | det |
| 6 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warmed | aux:pass |
| 8 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 warmed | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warmed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warmed | conj |
| 15 | crawling | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 began | xcomp |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 crawling | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm up | past · passive | two's body | some of the ants | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | two's body not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | crawl | gerund | two's body not said here | over two | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory |
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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