Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 173
Around the base he saw lots of bones, bones of people who had tried to climb but had fallen down and died.
Who acts: tree, people · What happens: see, try, climb, fall down, die · To what, where: lots, base
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 (tree, people), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 base | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 base | det |
| 3 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bones | case |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lots | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bones | punct |
| 10 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bones | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bones | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tried | aux |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 climb | mark |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 fallen | cc |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | aux |
| 20 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 fallen | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 died | cc |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fallen | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | tree | lots of bones and bones of people | the base | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lot=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | try | past · perfect | people | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall down | past · perfect | tree not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | past | tree not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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