Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 5
He had no canoe, so he always walked about, going great distances here and there and everywhere, until he had travelled almost all over the world, where he was heard of doing his mischievous pranks.
Who acts: djak · What happens: have, walk, go, travell, hear, do · To what, where: canoe, great distances, world, djak, mischievous pranks
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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 canoe | det |
| 4 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 walked | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 walked | advmod |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | advcl |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distances | amod |
| 14 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 going | obj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 going | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 there | cc |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 here | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 everywhere | cc |
| 19 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 here | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 travelled | punct |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 travelled | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 travelled | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 travelled | aux |
| 24 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 walked | conj |
| 25 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 26 all | advmod |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 world | advmod |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travelled | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 heard | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 heard | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 heard | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 heard | aux:pass |
| 34 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 travelled | conj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 doing | mark |
| 36 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 heard | advcl |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 pranks | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pranks | amod |
| 39 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 doing | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | djak | no canoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | djak | about, always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | djak not said here | great distances | here; there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | |||
| 4 | travell | past · perfect | djak | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · passive | djak | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do | gerund | djak's mischievous pranks | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Eventuality |
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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