Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 77
When he looked up, he saw a tree that had been blown down, resting in the crotch of another tree over him that rubbed when the wind blew and made this noise.
Who acts: cry, tree, wind · What happens: look up, see, blow down, rest, rub, blow · To what, where: tree, crotch, noise
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 (cry, tree, wind), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 blown | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 blown | aux:pass |
| 13 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | acl:relcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 blown | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resting | punct |
| 16 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 crotch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crotch | det |
| 19 | crotch | crotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 resting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 crotch | nmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tree | nmod |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 rubbed | nsubj |
| 26 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tree | acl:relcl |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 blew | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wind | det |
| 29 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 blew | nsubj |
| 30 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 rubbed | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blew | conj |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 noise | det |
| 34 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | cry | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | cry | a tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | blow down | past · perfect · passive | a tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | cry not said here | the crotch of another tree over cry | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crotch=Location | ||||
| 5 | rub | past | another tree over cry | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | blow | past | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | make | past | the wind not said here | this noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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