Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 118

Once in the autumn of the year, when the birds were ready to fly to the south for the winter, a young Loon was unable to fly far enough to go with the rest of the birds.

Who acts: birds, young Loon · What happens: be, fly, go

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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, young Loon), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 autumn	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 autumn	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 autumn	det
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 autumn	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ready	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 ready	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ready	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ready	cop
13	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 autumn	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fly	mark
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ready	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 south	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 south	det
18	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fly	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 winter	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 winter	det
21	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fly	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 unable	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Loon	det
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Loon	amod
25	Loon	Loon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 unable	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 unable	cop
27	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ready	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fly	mark
29	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 unable	xcomp
30	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 enough	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 fly	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 fly	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 rest	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rest	det
36	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 birds	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 birds	det
39	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 rest	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 autumn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the birds		ready property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	the birds not said here	winter	to the south result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to south=Result
3	is	past	a young Loon		unable property	tree rules
4	fly	to-infinitive	a young Loon not said here		enough property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	to-infinitive	a young Loon not said here		with the rest of the birds	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with rest=Beneficiary

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 118

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 118