Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 150
Every time he came to a lake, he shot an arrow across and sped before it as he had done at first.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, shoot, speed, do · To what, where: lake, arrow
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 (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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | nsubj |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 arrow | det |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shot | obj |
| 13 | across | across | ADV | _ | 10 shot | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sped | cc |
| 15 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shot | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sped | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 sped | advcl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 first | case |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 done | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | a lake | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shoot | past | man | a arrow | across property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | |||
| 3 | speed | participle | man not said here | lake | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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