Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 5
He couldn’t shoot them with his arrow as they were too far away, nor was there any place where he could hide himself until they came to sun themselves by the shore, when they felt too cold in the water.
Who acts: f, Lions · What happens: not shoot, be, hide, come, feel · To what, where: Lions, place, f
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 (f, Lions), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shoot | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shoot | advmod |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 place | csubj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shoot | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 arrow | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoot | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 away | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 away | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 away | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 shoot | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 was | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 place | cop |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 hide | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hide | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 hide | aux |
| 24 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 hide | obj |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hide | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 sun | mark |
| 30 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 31 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 sun | nmod |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 shore | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 shore | det |
| 34 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 felt | punct |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 felt | advmod |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 felt | nsubj |
| 38 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 came | conj |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 cold | advmod |
| 40 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 felt | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 felt | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot | could | f | Lions = lion | with f's arrow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument | |||
| 2 | is | past | Lions = lion | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | any place | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide | could | f | f | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Lions = lion | by the shore; sun Lions nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | Lions = lion | in the water; cold property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in water=Attribute |
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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