Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 113
But he had no canoe, and so he walked along the shore until he saw a big Snake lying in the water with his head on the shore.
Who acts: man, big Snake · What happens: have, walk, see, lie · To what, where: canoe, shore, big Snake, water
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, big Snake), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 canoe | det |
| 5 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 shore | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shore | det |
| 13 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Snake | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Snake | amod |
| 19 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Snake | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 shore | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shore | det |
| 29 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | no canoe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | man | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | past | man | a big Snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a big Snake not said here | the water | with man's head; on the shore | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location |
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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