Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 120

Wiske·djak cried and ran out into the water and tried to scoop up the grease in his hands to save some of it, but it all escaped him.

Who acts: Wiske, water · What happens: cry, run out, try, scoop up, save, escape · To what, where: water, grease, hands, some

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske, water), 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	Wiske	Wiske	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
2	·	·	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	djak	djak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ran	cc
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 ran	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tried	cc
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 scoop	mark
14	scoop	scoop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 scoop	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grease	det
17	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scoop	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scoop	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 save	mark
22	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 scoop	advcl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 save	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 some	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 escaped	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 escaped	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 escaped	nsubj
29	all	all	ADV	_	30 escaped	advmod
30	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 escaped	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wiske			djak nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run out	past	Wiske not said here			into the water result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result
3	try	past	Wiske not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	scoop up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wiske not said here	the grease	grease's hands		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grease=Theme in hand=Trajectory
5	save	to-infinitive	Wiske not said here	some of water			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
6	escape	past	water	grease		all property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location

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, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 120

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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 120