Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 13
Then he thought of draining the lake, so he went way around to the lower end and broke away the dam so that the water would run off.
Who acts: djak, water · What happens: think, drain, go around, break away, run off · To what, where: lake, way, dam
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 (djak, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 draining | mark |
| 5 | draining | drain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 draining | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obj |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 16 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 end | amod |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broke | cc |
| 19 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADP | _ | 19 broke | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dam | det |
| 22 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 broke | obj |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 run | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 run | aux |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 broke | advcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 run | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | djak | then | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drain | gerund | djak not said here | the lake | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lake=Source | ||||
| 3 | go around | past | djak | way | to the lower end | around property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | break away | past | djak not said here | the dam | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dam=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run off | would | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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