Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 4
Then he preyed upon anything he could find, like an animal.
Who acts: creature · What happens: prey, find
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 (creature), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 preyed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 preyed | nsubj |
| 3 | preyed | prey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 anything | case |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 preyed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anything | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 animal | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 animal | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preyed | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 preyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prey | past | creature | then | upon anything; a animal advcl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | could | creature | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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