Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 80
So they gave Ciŋgəbis the girl, and the next day went out on the lake to see him dive.
Who acts: parents, next day, Ciŋgəbis · What happens: give, go out, see, dive · To what, where: girl, Ciŋgəbis, lake
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 (parents, next day, Ciŋgəbis), 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 | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ciŋgəbis | Ciŋgəbis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | dive | dive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | parents = parent | the girl | Ciŋgəbis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ciŋgəbis=Recipient girl=Theme | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the next day | the lake | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the next day not said here | Ciŋgəbis | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dive | infinitive | Ciŋgəbis not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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