Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 3
One time in winter Wiske·djak was going along and fell upon an Indian’s trail.
Who acts: Wiske djak · What happens: go along, fall · To what, where: Indian trail
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 djak), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 winter | case |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | Wiske | Wiske | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 djak | compound |
| 6 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 7 djak | punct |
| 7 | djak | djak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | conj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 trail | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 trail | det |
| 15 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trail | amod |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Indian | case |
| 17 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past · progressive | Wiske djak | time | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Wiske djak not said here | a Indian trail | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon trail=Location |
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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