Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 152
However, they managed to get him in and then they paddled to the shore and dragged the fish to a place where they could conveniently clean it.
Who acts: lines · What happens: manage, get, paddle, drag, clean · To what, where: fish, shore, place
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 (lines), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 managed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 managed | nsubj |
| 4 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 managed | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paddled | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 paddled | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 paddled | nsubj |
| 12 | paddled | paddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 managed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paddled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dragged | cc |
| 17 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 managed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dragged | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dragged | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 clean | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 clean | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 clean | aux |
| 26 | conveniently | conveniently | ADV | _ | 27 clean | advmod |
| 27 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 place | acl:relcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 clean | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | lines = line | however property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | lines = line not said here | fish | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | paddle | past | lines = line | the shore | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to shore=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | drag | past | lines = line not said here | the fish | a place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 5 | clean | could | lines = line | place | conveniently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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