Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 167
Next he got tangled up in knee-high twigs.
What happens: tangle up · To what, where: little, knee high twigs
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: 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 tangled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tangled | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tangled | aux:pass |
| 4 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 tangled | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 twigs | case |
| 7 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twigs | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 knee | punct |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 twigs | amod |
| 10 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tangled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle up | past · passive | little | knee high twigs | next 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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