Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 10
So they sent a big snake to twist around it and to try to upset it, but the snake did not succeed in doing this, for Nenebuc stood too firm.
Who acts: Lions, snake, Nenebuc · What happens: send, twist, try, upset, not succeed, do · To what, where: big snake, snake, this
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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lions, snake, Nenebuc), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 twist | mark |
| 8 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 twist | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 twist | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 upset | mark |
| 15 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 upset | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 succeed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 succeed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 snake | det |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 succeed | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 succeed | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 succeed | advmod |
| 23 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | conj |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 doing | mark |
| 25 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 succeed | advcl |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 doing | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 stood | mark |
| 29 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 32 firm | advmod |
| 32 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stood | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Lions = lion | a big snake | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | twist | to-infinitive | Lions = lion not said here | around snake | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | Lions = lion not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | upset not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lions = lion not said here | snake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not succeed | past · do-support | the snake | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | gerund | the snake not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | stand | past | Nenebuc | firm property | 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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