Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 28
Fisher used to jump right through a big boulder as high as a man whenever he wanted to.
Who acts: Fisher · What happens: use, jump, want · To what, where: big boulder
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 (Fisher), 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 | Fisher | Fisher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 jump | mark |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 jump | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 boulder | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boulder | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boulder | amod |
| 9 | boulder | boulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 high | advmod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boulder | amod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 high | obl |
| 15 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wanted | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jump | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Fisher | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | jump | to-infinitive | Fisher not said here | a big boulder | right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through boulder=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | want | past | Fisher | whenever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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