Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 112
A man was one time walking along and came to a lake which he wanted to cross.
Who acts: man, one time, lake · What happens: be, walk, come, want, cross · To what, where: one time, lake
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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one time, lake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 time | nummod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 walking | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walking | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wanted | nsubj |
| 15 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lake | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 cross | mark |
| 17 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wanted | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a man | one time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | one time not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | one time not said here | a lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | want | past | a lake | man nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cross not said to happen | to-infinitive | a lake not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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