Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 153
He kept on until he reached the high rock of the cliff, and there he saw Wiske·djak lying on the edge of the rock sleeping soundly.
Who acts: djak, rock · What happens: keep on, reach, see, lie, sleep · To what, where: high rock, Wiske, edge
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 (djak, rock), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 kept | compound:prt |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rock | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 saw | expl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 18 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 19 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 20 djak | punct |
| 20 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 djak | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 edge | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 edge | det |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 rock | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rock | det |
| 27 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 edge | nmod |
| 28 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 rock | acl |
| 29 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 28 sleeping | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep on | past | djak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | djak | the high rock of the cliff | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | djak | Wiske | there | djak obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wiske=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | lie | gerund | djak not said here | the edge of the rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location | ||||
| 5 | sleep | gerund | the rock not said here | soundly property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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