Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Appendix: Notes on Timagami Folk-lore., sentence 55
The chase was a long one and the ‘Hell-diver’ was in the last stages of fatigue when he ran to the dam and quickly kicked it down.
Who acts: chase, Lake · What happens: be, run, kick down · To what, where: long one, last stages, chase
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 (chase, Lake), 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 chase | det |
| 2 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 diver | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 diver | det |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 diver | punct |
| 10 | Hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 diver | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hell | punct |
| 12 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | conj |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 diver | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stages | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stages | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stages | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stages | amod |
| 18 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fatigue | case |
| 20 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stages | nmod |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 ran | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 dam | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dam | det |
| 26 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kicked | cc |
| 28 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 29 kicked | advmod |
| 29 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kicked | obj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 kicked | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the chase | a long one and the Hell diver | the Hell diver conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the last stages | of fatigue | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Lake | to the dam result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to dam=Result | ||||
| 4 | kick down | past | Lake not said here | chase | quickly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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