Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 167
As he went over them, he looked back where he had come and saw all his blood from the sores stuck on to the willow twigs.
Who acts: Wiske · What happens: go, look back, come, see, stick on · To what, where: blood, sores
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 come | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 looked | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 blood | det:predet |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sores | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sores | det |
| 21 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obl |
| 22 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sores | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 stuck | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 twigs | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 twigs | det |
| 26 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 twigs | compound |
| 27 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stuck | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Wiske | over knees = knee | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look back | past | Wiske | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | Wiske | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Wiske not said here | Wiske's blood | the sores | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | stick on | participle | the sores not said here | to the willow twigs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to twig=Co-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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