Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 11
He used to visit from one family of Indians to another, but he never liked to stay long with one, so soon he would move away and go near other people.
Who acts: djak · What happens: use, visit, not like, stay, move away, go · To what, where: one family
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (djak), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 visit | mark |
| 4 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 family | nummod |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 visit | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Indians | case |
| 9 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 family | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 visit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 liked | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 liked | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 liked | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 liked | advmod |
| 16 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 used | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stay | mark |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 liked | xcomp |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 stay | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stay | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 move | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 move | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 move | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 move | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 move | aux |
| 27 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stay | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 move | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 go | cc |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 move | conj |
| 31 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 people | amod |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 go | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | djak | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | djak not said here | one family of Indians | to another | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | not like | past | djak | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | djak not said here | with one; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with one=Location | ||||
| 5 | move away | would | djak | away, soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | djak not said here | near other people | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near people=Location |
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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