Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 145
Many people have tried to go where your road leads; but they have never gotten there, for many creatures are seeking their lives.
Who acts: Many people, road, people, many creatures · What happens: try, go, lead, not get, seek · To what, where: lives
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 (Many people, road, people, many creatures), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | aux |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 leads | advmod |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 road | nmod:poss |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leads | nsubj |
| 10 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gotten | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 gotten | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gotten | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gotten | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 gotten | advmod |
| 16 | gotten | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 tried | conj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 gotten | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seeking | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeking | mark |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 creatures | amod |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seeking | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seeking | aux |
| 23 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 gotten | advcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seeking | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · perfect | Many people | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many people not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lead | present | your road | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | not get | present · perfect | people | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | seek | present · progressive | many creatures | creatures's lives | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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