Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 17
Likewise a Deer, an Otter, and a Lynx all went by, but from none did they receive any help.
Who acts: Lynx, Deer · What happens: go by, receive · To what, where: help, none, Deer
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 (Lynx, Deer), 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 Deer | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Deer | det |
| 3 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Otter | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Otter | det |
| 6 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Deer | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Lynx | det |
| 10 | Lynx | Lynx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Deer | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receive | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 receive | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 none | case |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 receive | obl |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 receive | aux |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 receive | nsubj |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | conj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 help | det |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Deer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | a Lynx | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | past · do-support | Deer | any help | none | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from none=Source |
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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