Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 27
As they passed they found the rabbits stolen from all their snares, but they did not mind it very much.
Who acts: snowshoes · What happens: pass, find, steal, not mind, snare · To what, where: rabbits, snares, rabbit · 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 (snowshoes), 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 passed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | advcl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rabbits | det |
| 7 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rabbits | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 snares | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 snares | det:predet |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 snares | nmod:poss |
| 12 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stolen | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 mind | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mind | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mind | advmod |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mind | obj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 mind | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | snowshoes = snowshoe | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | snowshoes = snowshoe | the rabbits | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent rabbit=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | steal | participle | the rabbits not said here | snowshoes's snares | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not mind | past · do-support | snowshoes = snowshoe | rabbit | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | snare | snowshoes = snowshoe | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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