Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 6, sentence 97
That was the reason why it was continually winter, for so long as he held these birds, they could not bring summer to the North Country.
Who acts: That, reason, One, birds · What happens: be, hold, not bring · To what, where: reason, winter, birds, North Country
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 (That, reason, One, birds), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reason | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 winter | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 winter | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 winter | cop |
| 8 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 9 winter | advmod |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 long | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 long | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 held | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 held | nsubj |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | advcl |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 birds | det |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bring | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 bring | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 bring | advmod |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reason | parataxis |
| 24 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Country | det |
| 27 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Country | compound |
| 28 | Country | Country | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the reason | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | reason | winter | continually property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hold | past | One | this birds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not bring | could | birds = bird | the North Country | summer | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to country=Destination |
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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