Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 24
One day he decided to watch the Indians, so he sat down on a log near a hunter’s path and waited for someone to come along.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: decide, watch, sit down, wait, come along · To what, where: Indians, log
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 (Wiske), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 watch | mark |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Indians | det |
| 8 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 watch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sat | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 decided | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 log | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 log | det |
| 16 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 path | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hunter | det |
| 19 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 path | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 hunter | case |
| 21 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waited | cc |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 someone | case |
| 25 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 waited | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 come | mark |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 waited | advcl |
| 28 | along | along | ADV | _ | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Wiske | day | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | the Indians | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent indian=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | Wiske | a log | near a hunter's path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location | |||
| 4 | wait | past | Wiske not said here | for someone | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come along | to-infinitive | Wiske not said here | along 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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