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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 30

Then the father of the child took his “arrow-head club,” [8] and went to where the child said he saw the wildcat.

Who acts: father, child · What happens: take, go, say, see · To what, where: head club, wildcat · 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 (father, child), 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

advmoddetnsubjcasedetnmodnmod:posspunctcompoundpunctcompoundobjpunctpunctpunctoblpunctccconjcaseadvmoddetnsubjadvclnsubjccompdetobjpunctrootThenADVtheDETfatherNOUNofADPtheDETchildNOUNtookVERBhisPRON“PUNCTarrowNOUN-PUNCTheadNOUNclubNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCT[PUNCT8NUM]PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBtoADPwhereADVtheDETchildNOUNsaidVERBhePRONsawVERBtheDETwildcatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem7 tookadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 fatherdet
3fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing7 tooknsubj
4ofofADP_6 childcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 childdet
6childchildNOUNNumber=Sing3 fathernmod
7tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 clubnmod:poss
9“"PUNCT_13 clubpunct
10arrowarrowNOUNNumber=Sing12 headcompound
11--PUNCT_10 arrowpunct
12headheadNOUNNumber=Sing13 clubcompound
13clubclubNOUNNumber=Sing7 tookobj
14,,PUNCT_7 tookpunct
15”"PUNCT_7 tookpunct
16[[PUNCT_17 8punct
1788NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card7 tookobl
18]]PUNCT_17 8punct
19andandCCONJ_20 wentcc
20wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 tookconj
21totoADP_22 wherecase
22wherewhereADVPronType=Rel25 saidadvmod
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 childdet
24childchildNOUNNumber=Sing25 saidnsubj
25saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 wentadvcl
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 sawnsubj
27sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 saidccomp
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 wildcatdet
29wildcatwildcatNOUNNumber=Sing27 sawobj
30..PUNCT_7 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastthe father of the childfather's head clubthen8 oblvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme
2gopastthe father of the child not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertpastthe childvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4seepastfatherthe wildcatvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wildcat=Stimulus

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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