Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 19

In so doing, she made a mistake, for there was no cloud in the sky and the sun was shining brightly near the horizon, so that, early in the morning, she looked at the sun. [12] She brought the water back in a birch bark pail and placed it inside the wigwam, but she could not sit down.

Who acts: girl, sun · What happens: do, make, shine, be, look, bring back · To what, where: mistake, horizon, water, bark pail, wigwam

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 (girl, sun), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	3 doing	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 doing	advmod
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 doing	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mistake	det
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 was	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 that	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cloud	det
14	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cloud	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shining	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shining	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shining	aux
22	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cloud	conj
23	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	22 shining	advmod
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 horizon	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horizon	det
26	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shining	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 that	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	29 that	case
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 made	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 morning	punct
31	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 morning	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 morning	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 morning	det
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 looked	nsubj
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	parataxis
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 sun.	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sun.	det
40	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
41	[	[	PUNCT	_	42 12	punct
42	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	40 sun.	appos
43	]	]	PUNCT	_	42 12	punct
44	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 brought	nsubj
45	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 looked	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 water	det
47	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 brought	obj
48	back	back	ADV	_	45 brought	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	53 pail	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 pail	det
51	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bark	compound
52	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pail	compound
53	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 brought	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 placed	cc
55	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 brought	conj
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 placed	obj
57	inside	inside	ADP	_	59 wigwam	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 wigwam	det
59	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 placed	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 sit	punct
61	but	but	CCONJ	_	65 sit	cc
62	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 sit	nsubj
63	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 sit	aux
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	65 sit	advmod
65	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	parataxis
66	down	down	ADP	_	65 sit	compound:prt
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	girl not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	girl	a mistake		morning		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product
3	shine	past · progressive	the sun		the horizon		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near horizon=Location
4	is	past					so that	tree rules
5	look	past	girl				at the sun.	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun.=Theme
6	bring back	past	girl	the water	a bark pail			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
7	place	past	girl not said here	water	the wigwam			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme inside wigwam=Destination
8	not sit down	could	girl					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 19