Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 37
He tried to reach some to pick them up and beheld himself in the water.
Who acts: Lynx · What happens: try, reach, pick up, behold · To what, where: some, flints, Lynx, 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 (Lynx), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 reach | mark |
| 4 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 reach | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pick | mark |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reach | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pick | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pick | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beheld | cc |
| 11 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 beheld | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beheld | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Lynx | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lynx not said here | some | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick up | to-infinitive | Lynx not said here | flints = flint | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 4 | behold | past | Lynx not said here | Lynx | the water | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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