Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 135
But when he tried to get his head clear of the skull, he could not, because his head had turned back to its original size and was fast inside the skull.
Who acts: Head · What happens: try, get, turn back, be · To what, where: head, original size, skull
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 (Head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tried | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 skull | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 skull | det |
| 12 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clear | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 could | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 could | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 turned | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 turned | aux |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 turned | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 size | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 size | nmod:poss |
| 26 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 size | amod |
| 27 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fast | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fast | cop |
| 30 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 turned | conj |
| 31 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 33 skull | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 skull | det |
| 33 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fast | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Head | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Head not said here | Head's head | clear property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | turn back | past · perfect | Head's head | Skull's original size | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to size=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Head's head not said here | the skull | fast property | tree rules |
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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