Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 69
One day he saw a track where the snow was melted, and after a while he decided to set his snares there and catch the animal that made the tracks.
Who acts: boy, animal · What happens: see, melt, decide, set, catch, make · To what, where: track, snow, snares, animal, tracks
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 (boy, animal), 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 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 track | det |
| 6 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 melted | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snow | det |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 melted | aux:pass |
| 11 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 track | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decided | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decided | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 decided | nsubj |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 set | mark |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decided | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 snares | nmod:poss |
| 22 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 set | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 catch | cc |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animal | det |
| 27 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 catch | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 animal | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tracks | det |
| 31 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 made | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | boy | a track | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | melt | past · passive | the snow | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | decide | past | boy | while | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy's snares | there | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient snare=Result | |||
| 5 | catch | infinitive | boy not said here | the animal | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 6 | make | past | the animal | the tracks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset track=Product | ||||
| 7 | snare | boy | nom snare «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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