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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 131

So he searched around the mountain until he came to a place clear of trees where there was a great chasm below, hundreds of feet deep, with a nice cool breeze coming over.

Who acts: Wiske, clear trees, nice cool breeze · What happens: search, come, be, come over · To what, where: mountain, place, great chasm

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske, clear trees, nice cool breeze), 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

advmodnsubjcasedetoblmarknsubjadvclcasedetoblamodcasensubjadvmodexplcopdetamodnmodadvmodpunctoblcasenmodamodpunctcasedetamodamodparataxisacladvmodpunctrootSoADVhePRONsearchedVERBaroundADPtheDETmountainNOUNuntilSCONJhePRONcameVERBtoADPaDETplaceNOUNclearADJofADPtreesNOUNwhereADVtherePRONwasAUXaDETgreatADJchasmNOUNbelowADV,PUNCThundredsNOUNofADPfeetNOUNdeepADJ,PUNCTwithADPaDETniceADJcoolADJbreezeNOUNcomingVERBoverADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 searchedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 searchednsubj
3searchedsearchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aroundaroundADP_6 mountaincase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mountaindet
6mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing3 searchedobl
7untiluntilSCONJ_9 camemark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 camensubj
9camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 searchedadvcl
10totoADP_12 placecase
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 placedet
12placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing9 cameobl
13clearclearADJDegree=Pos15 treesamod
14ofofADP_15 treescase
15treestreeNOUNNumber=Plur21 chasmnsubj
16wherewhereADVPronType=Rel18 wasadvmod
17theretherePRONPronType=Dem18 wasexpl
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 chasmcop
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 chasmdet
20greatgreatADJDegree=Pos21 chasmamod
21chasmchasmNOUNNumber=Sing12 placenmod
22belowbelowADV_21 chasmadvmod
23,,PUNCT_24 hundredspunct
24hundredshundredNOUNNumber=Plur27 deepobl
25ofofADP_26 feetcase
26feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur24 hundredsnmod
27deepdeepADJDegree=Pos21 chasmamod
28,,PUNCT_33 breezepunct
29withwithADP_33 breezecase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 breezedet
31niceniceADJDegree=Pos33 breezeamod
32coolcoolADJDegree=Pos33 breezeamod
33breezebreezeNOUNNumber=Sing9 cameparataxis
34comingcomeVERBVerbForm=Ger33 breezeacl
35overoverADV_34 comingadvmod
36..PUNCT_3 searchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1searchpastWiskethe mountainvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around mountain=Location
2comepastWiskea placea nice cool breeze parataxisvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3is apastclear treesa great chasmbelow propertytree rules
4come overgerunda nice cool breeze not said hereover propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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