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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

nsubjcompound:prtobjcasedetnmodccmarknsubjadvcldetobjadvmoddetnummodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodccnsubjauxadvmodconjoblpunctrootHePRONclimbedVERBupADPoneNUMofADPtheDETtreesNOUNandCCONJwhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBtheDETspotNOUNwhereADVtheDETtwoNUMtreesNOUNwereAUXscrapingVERB,PUNCThisPRONfootNOUNgotAUXcaughtVERBinADPaDETcrackNOUNbetweenADPtheDETtreesNOUNandCCONJhePRONcouldAUXnotPARTfreeADJhimselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 climbednsubj
2climbedclimbVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3upupADP_2 climbedcompound:prt
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 climbedobj
5ofofADP_7 treescase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 treesdet
7treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur4 onenmod
8andandCCONJ_24 caughtcc
9whenwhenSCONJ_11 reachedmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 reachednsubj
11reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 caughtadvcl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 spotdet
13spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing11 reachedobj
14wherewhereADVPronType=Rel19 scrapingadvmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 treesdet
16twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card17 treesnummod
17treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur19 scrapingnsubj
18werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 scrapingaux
19scrapingscrapeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part13 spotacl:relcl
20,,PUNCT_11 reachedpunct
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 footnmod:poss
22footfootNOUNNumber=Sing24 caughtnsubj:pass
23gotgetAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 caughtaux:pass
24caughtcatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 climbedconj
25ininADP_27 crackcase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 crackdet
27crackcrackNOUNNumber=Sing24 caughtobl
28betweenbetweenADP_30 treescase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 treesdet
30treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur27 cracknmod
31andandCCONJ_35 freecc
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 freensubj
33couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin35 freeaux
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 freeadvmod
35freefreeADJDegree=Pos24 caughtconj
36himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes35 freeobl
37..PUNCT_2 climbedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1climb uppastdone of the treesvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme
2reachpastdthe spotvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme
3scrapepast · progressivethe two treesvn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4catchpast · passived's foota crack between the treesvn 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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