Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 76
So that night they put one of the girl’s brothers to sleep alongside of him, so that he could not secretly get to the wigwam where the girls slept.
Who acts: people, Ciŋgəbis, girls · What happens: put, sleep, not get · To what, where: one
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 (people, Ciŋgəbis, girls), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | advcl |
| 14 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 get | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 23 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 wigwam | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wigwam | det |
| 27 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 slept | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 girls | det |
| 30 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 slept | nsubj |
| 31 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wigwam | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | people | one of the girl's brothers | night | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | people not said here | alongside Ciŋgəbis | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not get | could | Ciŋgəbis | to the wigwam result; secretly property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to wigwam=Result | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | the girls | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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