Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 58
The Bear began to roar and tear around with the pain, making a great time.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: begin, roar, tear around, make
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 (Bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 roar | mark |
| 5 | roar | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tear | cc |
| 7 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 roar | conj |
| 8 | around | around | ADV | _ | 7 tear | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pain | det |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tear | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tear | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Bear | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | roar | to-infinitive | the Bear not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tear around | infinitive | the Bear not said here | with the pain; around property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pain=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the Bear not said here | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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