Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 29
So he went back to the upper end of the portage and there saw more fresh tracks leading to the lower end.
Who acts: djak, more fresh tracks · What happens: go back, see, lead · To what, where: more fresh tracks
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, more fresh tracks), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 7 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 portage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 portage | det |
| 11 | portage | portage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | expl |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 tracks | amod |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tracks | amod |
| 17 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 tracks | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 21 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 end | amod |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leading | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | djak | to the upper end of the portage | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | djak not said here | more fresh tracks | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer track=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | more fresh tracks not said here | to the lower end | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to end=Patient |
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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