Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 84
Then he struck out under water and reached the shore where he hid under some rushes, just leaving his bill above the water.
Who acts: family · What happens: strike out, reach, hide, leave, bill · To what, where: water, shore, rushes, bill
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 (family), 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 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 struck | compound:prt |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 hid | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hid | nsubj |
| 13 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shore | acl:relcl |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 rushes | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 rushes | det |
| 16 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 leaving | advmod |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hid | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bill | nmod:poss |
| 21 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 22 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike out | past | family | water | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Location | |||
| 2 | reach | past | family not said here | the shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | family | some rushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rush=Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | family not said here | family's bill | the water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bill=Theme above water=Location | |||
| 5 | bill | family | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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