Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 142
He climbed up one of the trees and when he reached the spot where the two trees were scraping, his foot got caught in a crack between the trees and he could not free himself.
Who acts: d, two trees · What happens: climb up, reach, scrape, catch · To what, where: one, spot, foot, crack
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (d, two trees), 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 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 climbed | compound:prt |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 climbed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trees | det |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 caught | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caught | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 scraping | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 trees | nummod |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scraping | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 scraping | aux |
| 19 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 spot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 foot | nmod:poss |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caught | aux:pass |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 climbed | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 crack | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 crack | det |
| 27 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obl |
| 28 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 trees | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 trees | det |
| 30 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 crack | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 free | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 free | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 free | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 free | advmod |
| 35 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 caught | conj |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 free | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | d | one of the trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | d | the spot | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scrape | past · progressive | the two trees | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | catch | past · passive | d's foot | a crack between the trees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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