Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 16
The fisher is still trying to reach it and he is the nearest, but he only keeps going round and round it (representing the revolution of the constellation about the North Star) without being able to get there.
Who acts: fisher, animal, constellation · What happens: try, reach, be, keep, go, represent · To what, where: fisher, revolution
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 (fisher, animal, constellation), 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 | 2 fisher | det |
| 2 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trying | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | aux |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 trying | advmod |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reach | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nearest | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 nearest | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nearest | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nearest | det |
| 13 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 reach | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keeps | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 keeps | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 keeps | advmod |
| 18 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trying | conj |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 keeps | xcomp |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 round | cc |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 round | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | obj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 representing | punct |
| 25 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 going | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 revolution | det |
| 27 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 representing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 constellation | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 constellation | det |
| 30 | constellation | constellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 revolution | nmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 Star | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Star | det |
| 33 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Star | compound |
| 34 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 constellation | nmod |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 representing | punct |
| 36 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 38 able | mark |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 able | cop |
| 38 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 going | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 get | mark |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 able | xcomp |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 get | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | the fisher | still | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fisher not said here | fisher | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | animal | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | animal | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | gerund | animal not said here | fisher | round property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 6 | represent | gerund | animal not said here | the revolution of the constellation about the North Star | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot revolution=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | gerund | animal not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get | to-infinitive | animal not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | revolt | the constellation about the North Star | nom revolution «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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