Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 187
When he looked, lo! he found himself back to where he had begun to climb the steps, holding on with his worn-out bones.
Who acts: voice · What happens: look, find, begin, climb, hold on · To what, where: voice, steps
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 (voice), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 5 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 8 found | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lo | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 begun | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 15 begun | mark |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 begun | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 begun | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 begun | aux |
| 15 | begun | begin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 climb | mark |
| 17 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begun | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steps | det |
| 19 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 climb | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 holding | punct |
| 21 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 climb | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 holding | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bones | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bones | nmod:poss |
| 25 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 out | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 worn | punct |
| 27 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bones | compound |
| 28 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 holding | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | voice | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | find | past | voice | voice | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||||
| 3 | begin | past · perfect | voice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | climb | to-infinitive | voice not said here | the steps | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location step=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold on | gerund | voice not said here | with voice's out bones | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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