Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 189
He found that he could run up the great tree by tapping his tail on the trunk at each step.
Who acts: voice · What happens: find, run up, tap · To what, where: great tree, tail · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 run | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | aux |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 run | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obj |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 tapping | mark |
| 12 | tapping | tap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 run | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tapping | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 trunk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trunk | det |
| 17 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tapping | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 step | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 step | det |
| 20 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tapping | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | voice | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run up | could | voice | the great tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | tap | gerund | voice not said here | voice's tail | at each step; on the trunk | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tail=Instrument on trunk=Patient |
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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