Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 86
They waited for him half the day and, though the water was calm, could not see him, so they gave him up and went home.
Who acts: nostrils, water · What happens: wait, be, not see, give up, go · To what, where: family
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 (nostrils, water), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | obl |
| 5 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 7 day | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 calm | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 calm | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 calm | cop |
| 14 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 see | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 calm | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 gave | compound:prt |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gave | conj |
| 28 | home | home | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | nostrils = nostril | day | for family | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the water | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not see | could | nostrils = nostril not said here | family | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give up | past | nostrils = nostril | family | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | ||||
| 5 | go | past | nostrils = nostril not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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