Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 29
One day he told Lynx to try to beat him and jump through.
Who acts: Fisher · What happens: tell, try, beat, jump · To what, where: Lynx, Fisher · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beat | mark |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 beat | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jump | cc |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beat | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADV | _ | 12 jump | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Fisher | Lynx | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lynx=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fisher not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fisher not said here | Fisher | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump | infinitive | Fisher not said here | through property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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