Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 15

The story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky, relating how the various animals tried to reach the north star, but eventually froze to death.

Who acts: story accounts, various animals · What happens: relate, try, reach, freeze · To what, where: north star

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story accounts, various animals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 accounts	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	compound
3	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 froze	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 presence	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 presence	det
6	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accounts	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fisher	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fisher	det
9	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presence	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fisher	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 relating	punct
14	relating	relate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 accounts	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 tried	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 animals	det
17	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 animals	amod
18	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 relating	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 reach	mark
21	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tried	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 star	det
23	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 star	compound
24	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reach	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 froze	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 froze	cc
27	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	28 froze	advmod
28	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 froze	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 froze	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	relate	gerund	the story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky not said here			vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	the various animals			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the various animals not said here	the north star		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent star=Theme
4	freeze	past	the story accounts for the presence of the fisher in the sky		to death; eventually property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 15