Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 129
He tried different ways to reach in, but could not get at it.
Who acts: thing · What happens: try, reach, not get · To what, where: different ways, way
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 (thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ways | amod |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tried | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 reach | mark |
| 6 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ways | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 reach | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | thing | different ways | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | thing not said here | different ways not said here | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not get | could | thing not said here | way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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