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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 42

Suddenly he saw a big Bear sitting down among some bushes, every little while rubbing his eyes and picking out his paws as though something was hurting his eyes.

Who acts: djak, big Bear, something · What happens: see, sit down, rub, pick out, hurt · To what, where: big Bear, bushes, eyes, paws

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, big Bear, something), 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

advmodnsubjdetamodobjacladvmodcasedetoblpunctdetconjmarkadvclnmod:possobjccconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjadvmodmarknsubjauxadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootSuddenlyADVhePRONsawVERBaDETbigADJBearNOUNsittingVERBdownADVamongADPsomeDETbushesNOUN,PUNCTeveryDETlittleADJwhileSCONJrubbingVERBhisPRONeyesNOUNandCCONJpickingVERBoutADPhisPRONpawsNOUNasADVthoughSCONJsomethingPRONwasAUXhurtingVERBhisPRONeyesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SuddenlysuddenlyADV_3 sawadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 Beardet
5bigbigADJDegree=Pos6 Bearamod
6BearbearNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
7sittingsitVERBVerbForm=Ger6 Bearacl
8downdownADV_7 sittingadvmod
9amongamongADP_11 bushescase
10somesomeDETPronType=Ind11 bushesdet
11bushesbushNOUNNumber=Plur7 sittingobl
12,,PUNCT_14 littlepunct
13everyeveryDETPronType=Tot14 littledet
14littlelittleADJDegree=Pos3 sawconj
15whilewhileSCONJ_16 rubbingmark
16rubbingrubVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 sawadvcl
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 eyesnmod:poss
18eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur16 rubbingobj
19andandCCONJ_20 pickingcc
20pickingpickVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 rubbingconj
21outoutADP_20 pickingcompound:prt
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 pawsnmod:poss
23pawspawNOUNNumber=Plur20 pickingobj
24asasADV_20 pickingadvmod
25thoughthoughSCONJ_28 hurtingmark
26somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind28 hurtingnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 hurtingaux
28hurtinghurtVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 pickingadvcl
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 eyesnmod:poss
30eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur28 hurtingobj
31..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastdjaka big Bearsuddenly propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
2sit downgerunda big Bear not said heresome bushesdown propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bush=Location
3rubgerunddjak not said heredjak's eyesvn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4pick outgerunddjak not said heredjak's pawsvn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient
5hurtpast · progressivesomethingdjak's eyesvn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=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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