Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 52
As it was winter time, there was a water hole in the ice on the lake, and he went down and slid into the water and disappeared.
Who acts: kind, water hole, hole · What happens: be, go down, slide, disappear · To what, where: water
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 (kind, water hole, hole), 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 | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | compound |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hole | compound |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 ice | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ice | det |
| 14 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hole | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ice | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 was | parataxis |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slid | cc |
| 24 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slid | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 disappeared | cc |
| 29 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kind | as winter time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a water hole in the ice on the lake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go down | past | hole | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | slide | past | hole not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 5 | disappear | past | hole not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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