Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 121
Just as they reached the shore, when the hunter could leap to safety, a stroke of lightning hit the Snake and broke him into numberless pieces, which began swimming about and finally came to land.
Who acts: Snakes, hunter, stroke, numberless pieces · What happens: reach, leap, hit, break, begin, swim · To what, where: shore, safety, Snake, stroke, numberless pieces, lightning
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 (Snakes, hunter, stroke, numberless pieces), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leap | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 leap | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hunter | det |
| 10 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leap | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leap | aux |
| 12 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 safety | case |
| 14 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leap | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stroke | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 stroke | det |
| 17 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lightning | case |
| 19 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stroke | nmod |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leap | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Snake | det |
| 22 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broke | cc |
| 24 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hit | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 broke | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 pieces | case |
| 27 | numberless | numberless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pieces | amod |
| 28 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 broke | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 began | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 began | nsubj |
| 31 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 32 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 began | xcomp |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 swimming | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 35 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 36 came | advmod |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 began | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 land | mark |
| 38 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 came | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Snakes = snake | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap | could | the hunter | safety | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to safety=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hit | past | a stroke of lightning | the Snake | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | past | a stroke of lightning not said here | stroke | into numberless pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into piece=Result | |||
| 5 | begin | past | numberless pieces | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | swim | gerund | numberless pieces not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come | past | numberless pieces not said here | finally property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | land | to-infinitive | numberless pieces not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | stroke | lightning | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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