Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 4
He followed the tracks of the snowshoes and soon came to a place where the Indian had set his rabbit snares.
Who acts: djak, rabbit · What happens: follow, come, set, snare · To what, where: tracks, place, Indian
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 (djak, rabbit), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tracks | det |
| 4 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 snowshoes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snowshoes | det |
| 7 | snowshoes | snowshoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tracks | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 set | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Indian | det |
| 16 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 rabbit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 snares | nsubj |
| 21 | snares | snare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | djak | the tracks of the snowshoes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | djak not said here | a place | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | the Indian | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | snare | present | djak's rabbit | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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