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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 searched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 searched | obl |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 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 | 3 searched | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trees | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 chasm | nsubj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 chasm | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chasm | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chasm | amod |
| 21 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 22 | below | below | ADV | _ | 21 chasm | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hundreds | punct |
| 24 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 deep | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 feet | case |
| 26 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hundreds | nmod |
| 27 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chasm | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 breeze | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 breeze | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 breeze | det |
| 31 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 breeze | amod |
| 32 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 breeze | amod |
| 33 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | parataxis |
| 34 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 breeze | acl |
| 35 | over | over | ADV | _ | 34 coming | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | Wiske | the mountain | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around mountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Wiske | a place | a nice cool breeze parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | clear trees | a great chasm | below property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come over | gerund | a nice cool breeze not said here | over property | vn 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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