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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 201

Then he took to the bush and escaped.

Who acts: djak · What happens: take, escape

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), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblccconjpunctrootThenADVhePRONtookVERBtoADPtheDETbushNOUNandCCONJescapedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 tookadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_6 bushcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 bushdet
6bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobl
7andandCCONJ_8 escapedcc
8escapedescapeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
9..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastdjakthento the bush resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bush=Result
2escapepastdjak not said herevn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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