Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 153
The next tree he bumped against proved to be a red pine.
Who acts: next tree · What happens: bump, prove, be · To what, where: red pine
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 (next tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tree | amod |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bumped | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bumped | nsubj |
| 5 | bumped | bump | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | SCONJ | _ | 7 proved | mark |
| 7 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bumped | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pine | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pine | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pine | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pine | amod |
| 12 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proved | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bump | past | the next tree | Beech nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | participle | the next tree not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the next tree not said here | a red pine | 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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