Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 83
So fast had they travelled that some of the old people, unable to keep up with the younger ones, had died of their efforts to hurry.
Who acts: people · What happens: travel, keep up, die, hurry
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 fast | advmod |
| 2 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 travelled | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 unable | mark |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 unable | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 travelled | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 keep | mark |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 keep | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ones | det |
| 19 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 died | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 died | aux |
| 23 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 travelled | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 efforts | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 died | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 hurry | mark |
| 28 | hurry | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 efforts | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | people | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep up | to-infinitive | people not said here | with the younger ones | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | past · perfect | people not said here | of people's efforts | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of effort=Causer | ||||
| 4 | hurry | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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