Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 2, sentence 57
So he decided to lie down in a clear space facing the lake where people would come in a canoe if any were around.
Who acts: djak, clear space, people · What happens: decide, lie down, face, come, be · To what, where: clear space, lake, canoe
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, clear space, people), 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 decided | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lie | mark |
| 5 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 lie | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 space | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 space | det |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 space | amod |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | obl |
| 11 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 space | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 facing | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 come | advmod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lake | acl:relcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 canoe | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 canoe | det |
| 20 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 around | mark |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 around | det |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 around | cop |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 come | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | djak | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie down not said to happen | to-infinitive | djak not said here | a clear space | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in space=Location | ||||
| 3 | face | gerund | a clear space not said here | the lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | would | people | a canoe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canoe=Location | ||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | people not said here | around property | tree rules |
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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