Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Phonetic Key., sentence 75
[28] The Indians often had much trouble to get food in the winter and looked forward eagerly to spring, when the ice leaves the rivers, making “open water,” thus enabling them to seek new hunting places.
Who acts: Indians, 28, ice, foods · What happens: have, get, look, leave, make, enable · To what, where: 28, food, rivers, open water, foods, new hunting places
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Phonetic Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians, 28, ice, foods), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 2 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 had | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 28 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indians | det |
| 5 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 winter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winter | det |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 18 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 spring | case |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leaves | punct |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 leaves | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ice | det |
| 25 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 leaves | nsubj |
| 26 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rivers | det |
| 28 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leaves | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 making | punct |
| 30 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 leaves | advcl |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 water | punct |
| 32 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 water | amod |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 making | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 water | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 water | punct |
| 36 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 37 enabling | advmod |
| 37 | enabling | enable | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 making | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 enabling | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 seek | mark |
| 40 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 enabling | xcomp |
| 41 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 places | amod |
| 42 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 places | compound |
| 43 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 seek | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Indians | 28 | much trouble obj; often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | 28 not said here | food | winter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | look | past | the Indians not said here | spring | eagerly, forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | leave | present | the ice | the rivers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the ice not said here | open water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product | ||||
| 6 | enable | gerund | the ice not said here | foods = food | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | seek | to-infinitive | foods = food not said here | new hunting places | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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