Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 119
To remove himself from the temptation of breaking her rule he went away by himself and stayed the first night.
Who acts: temptation, man, Skunk · What happens: remove, break, go away, stay, rule · To what, where: man, temptation, rule
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temptation, man, Skunk), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 remove | mark |
| 2 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 remove | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 temptation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temptation | det |
| 6 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remove | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 breaking | mark |
| 8 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 temptation | acl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rule | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 breaking | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rule | acl:relcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stayed | cc |
| 17 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 night | amod |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | to-infinitive | man | the temptation | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from temptation=Source | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | the temptation not said here | Skunk's rule | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | man | Skunk's rule not said here | by man; away property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rule=Theme | |||
| 4 | stay | past | man not said here | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rule | Skunk | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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