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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 17

Now he thought the beaver might have escaped over the dam with the water, so he started back, and sure enough he saw the beaver going over the dam.

Who acts: djak, beaver · What happens: think, escape, start back, see, go · To what, where: beaver, dam · Speech: someone speaks here

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, beaver), 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

advmodnsubjdetnsubj:passauxauxccompcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctadvmodnsubjconjadvmodpunctccconjadvmodnsubjccompdetobjaclcasedetoblpunctrootNowADVhePRONthoughtVERBtheDETbeaverNOUNmightAUXhaveAUXescapedVERBoverADPtheDETdamNOUNwithADPtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONstartedVERBbackADV,PUNCTandCCONJsureADJenoughADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETbeaverNOUNgoingVERBoverADPtheDETdamNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem3 thoughtadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 thoughtnsubj
3thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 beaverdet
5beaverbeaverNOUNNumber=Sing8 escapednsubj:pass
6mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin8 escapedaux
7havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf8 escapedaux
8escapedescapeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 thoughtccomp
9overoverADP_11 damcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 damdet
11damdamNOUNNumber=Sing8 escapedobl
12withwithADP_14 watercase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 waterdet
14waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing11 damnmod
15,,PUNCT_18 startedpunct
16sosoADV_18 startedadvmod
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 startednsubj
18startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thoughtconj
19backbackADV_18 startedadvmod
20,,PUNCT_22 surepunct
21andandCCONJ_22 surecc
22suresureADJDegree=Pos3 thoughtconj
23enoughenoughADV_22 sureadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 sawnsubj
25sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 sureccomp
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 beaverdet
27beaverbeaverNOUNNumber=Sing25 sawobj
28goinggoVERBVerbForm=Ger27 beaveracl
29overoverADP_31 damcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 damdet
31damdamNOUNNumber=Sing28 goingobl
32..PUNCT_3 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastdjaknowvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2escapemight · perfect · passivethe beaverthe dam with the watertree rules
3start backpastdjakvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4seepastdjakthe beavervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beaver=Stimulus
5gogerundthe beaver not said herethe damvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over dam=Initial_Location

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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