Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 156

When he had enough he turned back into a man, but he had his head inside the skull; this allowed him to walk but not to see.

Who acts: e, this · What happens: have, turn back, allow, walk, not see · To what, where: head, skull, e

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 (e, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	advcl
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	inside	inside	ADP	_	19 skull	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 skull	det
19	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 allowed	punct
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 allowed	nsubj
22	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 allowed	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 walk	mark
25	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 allowed	xcomp
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 see	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 walk	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	e				enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	turn back	past	e				into a man	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	e	e's head		the skull		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	allow	past	this		e			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	this not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not see	to-infinitive	this not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 156

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 156