Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 38
He pretended to climb up and then said, “I can’t climb up any further.”
Who acts: Bear · What happens: pretend, climb up, say, not climb up · Speech: someone speaks here
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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | 2 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 climb | mark |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 climb | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretended | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climb | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 climb | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 climb | nsubj |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 climb | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 climb | advmod |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climb | compound:prt |
| 16 | any | any | ADV | _ | 17 further | advmod |
| 17 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 climb | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | Bear | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | climb up | to-infinitive | Bear not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bear not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not climb up in a quote | can | Bear | far property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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