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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Wiske·djak Cycle., part 3, sentence 90

He got under one lying flat, and pushed it just a little above the water so that his nostrils were out of water, yet covered by the stem of the rush.

Who acts: family, nostrils · What happens: get, lie, push, be, cover, stem · To what, where: dove, water, rush

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, nostrils), 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

nsubjcaseobladvcladvmodpunctccconjobjadvmoddetoblcasedetnmodmarkfixednmod:possnsubjcopcasecaseadvclpunctccconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootHePRONgotVERBunderADPoneNUMlyingVERBflatADV,PUNCTandCCONJpushedVERBitPRONjustADVaDETlittleADJaboveADPtheDETwaterNOUNsoSCONJthatSCONJhisPRONnostrilsNOUNwereAUXoutADPofADPwaterNOUN,PUNCTyetCCONJcoveredVERBbyADPtheDETstemNOUNofADPtheDETrushNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 gotnsubj
2gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3underunderADP_4 onecase
4oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 gotobl
5lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 gotadvcl
6flatflatADV_5 lyingadvmod
7,,PUNCT_9 pushedpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 pushedcc
9pushedpushVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gotconj
10ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 pushedobj
11justjustADV_13 littleadvmod
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 littledet
13littlelittleADJDegree=Pos9 pushedobl
14aboveaboveADP_16 watercase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 waterdet
16waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing13 littlenmod
17sosoSCONJExtPos=SCONJ24 watermark
18thatthatSCONJ_17 sofixed
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 nostrilsnmod:poss
20nostrilsnostrilNOUNNumber=Plur24 waternsubj
21werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 watercop
22outoutADP_24 watercase
23ofofADP_24 watercase
24waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing9 pushedadvcl
25,,PUNCT_27 coveredpunct
26yetyetCCONJ_27 coveredcc
27coveredcoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 gotconj
28bybyADP_30 stemcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 stemdet
30stemstemNOUNNumber=Sing27 coveredobl
31ofofADP_33 rushcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 rushdet
33rushrushNOUNNumber=Sing30 stemnmod
34..PUNCT_2 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastfamilyunder onevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2liegerundfamily not said hereflat propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3pushpastfamily not said heredovea little above the water oblvn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4ispastfamily's nostrilswatertree rules
5coverparticiplefamily not said hereby the stem of the rushvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6stemthe rushnom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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