Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 81
In one day’s walk he climbed over three great mountains, something that no man could do.
Who acts: Suum, man, one day · What happens: climb, do, walk · To what, where: three great mountains, walk
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 (Suum, man, one day), 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 | ADP | _ | 5 walk | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walk | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 day | case |
| 5 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 three | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 mountains | nummod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountains | amod |
| 11 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 climbed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 something | punct |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 mountains | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 do | obj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 something | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Suum | three great mountains | one day's walk | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | could | no man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | walk | one day | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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