Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 28

Some time after, one of the Indians’ little children came along the trail and saw Wiske·djak with his big face and bulging eyes sitting on the stump.

Who acts: one, eyes · What happens: come, see, bulge, sit · To what, where: trail, Wiske, eyes, stump

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 (one, eyes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 came	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 children	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indians	det
8	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 children	nmod:poss
9	’	's	PART	_	8 Indians	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 children	amod
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 trail	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trail	det
15	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
18	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
19	·	·	PUNCT	_	20 djak	punct
20	djak	djak	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 face	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 face	nmod:poss
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 djak	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bulging	cc
26	bulging	bulge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 face	conj
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bulging	obj
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 eyes	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 stump	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stump	det
31	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	one of the Indians's little children		the trail	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along trail=Initial_Location
2	see	past	one of the Indians's little children not said here	Wiske			djak with Indian's big face obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus
3	bulge	gerund	one of the Indians's little children not said here	eyes				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
4	sit	gerund	eyes not said here		the stump			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stump=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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 28

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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 28