Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 176
Taking one in each hand, like a pick, he began climbing up the great tree.
Who acts: tree · What happens: take, begin, climb up · To what, where: one, hand, great tree
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), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 began | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pick | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 pick | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pick | det |
| 9 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 began | nsubj |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 climbing | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 climbing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | tree not said here | one | each hand | like a pick | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | begin | past | tree | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb up | gerund | tree not said here | the great tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=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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