Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 7, sentence 76
There they saw the sun caught, but no one could go near enough to loosen it A number of animals tried to do this, but they all got burned.
Who acts: snares, one · What happens: see, catch, go, loosen, try, do · To what, where: sun, animals, this, snares
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 (snares, one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sun | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 near | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 loosen | mark |
| 16 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 loosen | obj |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loosen | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 animals | case |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 animals | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 burned | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 burned | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 burned | aux:pass |
| 31 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | snares = snare | the sun | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | the sun not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | could | no one | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | loosen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | sun | a number of animals obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | try | participle | animals not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | burn | past · passive | snares = snare | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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