Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 21
But when the beaver reached Calumet chutes, he was afraid to go through and took to the portage.
Who acts: beaver · What happens: reach, be, go through, take · To what, where: Calumet chutes
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 afraid | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beaver | det |
| 4 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | advcl |
| 6 | Calumet | Calumet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chutes | compound |
| 7 | chutes | chute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 afraid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 afraid | cop |
| 11 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 afraid | xcomp |
| 14 | through | through | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 portage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 portage | det |
| 19 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the beaver | Calumet chutes | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent chute=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Beaver | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go through | to-infinitive | Beaver not said here | through property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Beaver not said here | to the portage result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to portage=Result |
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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