Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 53
His relatives spent all day hunting for him along the shores, thinking he might come up along the edge, but he did not.
Who acts: relatives, hole · What happens: spend, hunt, think, come up, not do · To what, where: shores, edge · 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 (relatives, hole), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 2 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hunting | obl |
| 9 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 shores | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shores | det |
| 11 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hunting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thinking | punct |
| 13 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thinking | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 edge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 edge | det |
| 20 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 did | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 did | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | hole's relatives | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | hole's relatives not said here | the shores | for hole | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme along shore=Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | hole's relatives not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come up | might | hole | the edge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along edge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | not do | past | hole | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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