Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Free Translation., sentence 12
He was always looking for trouble and got it too, but in spite of all he was never killed.
Who acts: djak · What happens: look, get, not kill · To what, where: trouble, djak, spite
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Free Translation.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 looking | advmod |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 trouble | case |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 killed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spite | case |
| 14 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 killed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 spite | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 killed | advmod |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looking | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · progressive | djak | for trouble; always property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for trouble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | djak not said here | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not kill | past · passive | djak | spite of all | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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