Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 14

Once upon a time two girls who were out in the woods climbed a tall spruce tree, but when they wanted to descend, they found that it was impossible.

Who acts: two girls, Girls · What happens: climb, want, descend, find, be · To what, where: tall spruce tree

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, Girls), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 climbed	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbed	obl
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 girls	nummod
6	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 climbed	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 were	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 girls	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 were	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	obl
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
16	spruce	spruce	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tree	compound
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climbed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 wanted	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 found	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 descend	mark
24	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wanted	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wanted	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 found	nsubj
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 climbed	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 impossible	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 impossible	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impossible	cop
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 found	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	two girls	a tall spruce tree	time	once property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	want	past	Girls = girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	descend not said to happen	to-infinitive	Girls = girl not said here				vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	Girls = girl				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Girls = girl not said here			impossible property	tree rules

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 14