Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 1, sentence 9
On one side of the lake, he came to a round, high mountain that looked like a beaver-lodge.
Who acts: djak, round high mountain · What happens: come, look · To what, where: one side
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, round high mountain), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 side | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mountain | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 round | punct |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mountain | amod |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 lodge | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lodge | det |
| 20 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lodge | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 beaver | punct |
| 22 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | djak | one side of the lake | to a round high mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | a round high mountain | like a beaver lodge | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/5/9/