Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 83
Then Wiske·djak climbed the tree and put his hands in between the tree and the crotch to stop the rubbing, and when the wind blew a little the space spread and closed again.
Who acts: Wiske djak, wind, little · What happens: climb, put, stop, blow, spread, close · To what, where: tree, hands, rubbing
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 (Wiske djak, wind, little), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 djak | compound |
| 3 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 4 djak | punct |
| 4 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crotch | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crotch | det |
| 18 | crotch | crotch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stop | mark |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 climbed | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rubbing | det |
| 22 | rubbing | rubbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stop | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blew | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 blew | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wind | det |
| 27 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blew | nsubj |
| 28 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 spread | nsubj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 space | det |
| 32 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 spread | nsubj |
| 33 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 blew | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 closed | cc |
| 35 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 blew | conj |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 closed | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Wiske djak | the tree | then | the crotch conj | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | past | Wiske djak not said here | djak's hands | the tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in tree=Destination | |||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | Wiske djak not said here | the rubbing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rubbing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | blow | past | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | spread | past | a little | the space nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | close | participle | the wind not said here | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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