Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 117
The hunter got on the Snake’s back and they started to swim across the lake.
Who acts: hunter, Snakes · What happens: get, start, swim · To what, where: back, 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 (hunter, Snakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Snake | det |
| 6 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Snake | case |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 started | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 started | nsubj |
| 11 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 swim | mark |
| 13 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 started | xcomp |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swim | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the hunter | the Snake's back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Snakes = snake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | Snakes = snake not said here | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lake=Trajectory |
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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