Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 21
Then he discovered that his paws were big and broad and so spread out when he walked that they resembled snowshoes.
Who acts: Wiske, paws · What happens: discover, be, spread out, walk, resemble · To what, where: snowshoes
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wiske, paws), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 big | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 big | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 big | cop |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 discovered | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 broad | cc |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 big | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spread | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 spread | advmod |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 discovered | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spread | compound:prt |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 walked | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 walked | nsubj |
| 17 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 resembled | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 resembled | nsubj |
| 20 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 walked | advcl |
| 21 | snowshoes | snowshoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resembled | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Wiske | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wiske's paws | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Wiske's paws not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spread out | infinitive | Wiske not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | walk | past | Wiske | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | resemble | past | paws = paw | snowshoes | 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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