Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 94

All of a sudden they found themselves upon the brink of the falls, and before they could help themselves they all went over.

Who acts: All, Falls · What happens: find, help, go over · To what, where: Falls

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 (All, Falls), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 found	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sudden	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sudden	det
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 All	nmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 found	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 found	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 brink	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 brink	det
10	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 falls	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 falls	det
13	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 brink	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 help	cc
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 help	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 found	parataxis
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 help	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 went	advmod
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 help	parataxis
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	All of a sudden	Falls	upon the brink of the falls	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic
2	help	could	Falls	Falls		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
3	go over	past	Falls		over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 94