Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 127
So when they slid, Wemicus passed safely and the man held his stick with the tobacco in it in front of him, thus preventing the snakes from biting him.
Who acts: snakes, Wemicus, man · What happens: slide, pass, hold, prevent, bite · To what, where: stick, snakes, Wemicus
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes, Wemicus, man), 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 | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 slid | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slid | nsubj |
| 4 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slid | punct |
| 6 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 held | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | nsubj |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stick | nmod:poss |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tobacco | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tobacco | det |
| 17 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 held | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 front | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 preventing | punct |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 preventing | advmod |
| 26 | preventing | prevent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passed | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 snakes | det |
| 28 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 preventing | obj |
| 29 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 30 biting | mark |
| 30 | biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 preventing | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 biting | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | past | snakes = snake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | Wemicus | safely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | the man | Wemicus's stick | stick | with the tobacco; in front of Wemicus | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in it=Location | ||
| 4 | prevent | gerund | Wemicus not said here | the snakes | thus property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer snake=Theme | |||
| 5 | bite | gerund | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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