Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 4, sentence 46
Wolverine started to climb up, for he thought it a very fortunate thing to have these women and was very glad.
Who acts: Wolverine · What happens: start, climb up, think, have, be · To what, where: noise, women
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 (Wolverine), 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 | Wolverine | Wolverine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | 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 started | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 climb | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 fortunate | advmod |
| 13 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thing | acl |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 women | det |
| 18 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glad | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 glad | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 thought | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Wolverine | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | climb up | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Wolverine | noise | a fortunate thing ccomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | Wolverine not said here | this women | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Wolverine not said here | glad property | tree rules |
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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