Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 8, sentence 76
The Iroquois followed them on snowshoes, but the sons made a great number of branch trails in order to deceive them.
Who acts: Iroquois, sons · What happens: follow, make, deceive · To what, where: people, snowshoes, great number
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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iroquois, sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Iroquois | det |
| 2 | Iroquois | Iroquois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 snowshoes | case |
| 6 | snowshoes | snowshoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 followed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sons | det |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 number | amod |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trails | case |
| 16 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trails | compound |
| 17 | trails | trail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 order | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trails | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 deceive | mark |
| 21 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deceive | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the Iroquois | people | snowshoes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme on snowshoe=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | past | the sons | a great number of branch trails in order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Product | ||||
| 3 | deceive | to-infinitive | the sons not said here | people | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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