Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 55
Very often some of the berry-pickers would get lost and never be found again.
What happens: lose, not find · To what, where: some
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: 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 often | advmod |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 lost | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pickers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pickers | det |
| 6 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pickers | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 berry | punct |
| 8 | pickers | picker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux |
| 10 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 found | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lost | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 found | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | would · passive | some of the berry pickers | often property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not find | infinitive · passive | again | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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