Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 29
The child ran back to camp and told his parents that he saw a big wildcat with bulging eyes staring at him from a stump.
Who acts: child, Indian, bulging eyes · What happens: run back, tell, see, bulge, stare · To what, where: parents, big wildcat, stump · 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 (child, Indian, bulging 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 camp | case |
| 6 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parents | nmod:poss |
| 10 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 saw | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wildcat | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wildcat | amod |
| 16 | wildcat | wildcat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | bulging | bulge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wildcat | nmod |
| 20 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 eyes | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 staring | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 stump | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stump | det |
| 25 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 staring | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run back | past | the child | to camp result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to camp=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the child not said here | Indian's parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Indian | a big wildcat | with bulging eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wildcat=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bulge | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | stare | gerund | bulging eyes not said here | a stump | at Indian | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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