Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 13

So he followed it up till he came to the Lynx lying dead and a little farther on he found the Big Buck dead too.

Who acts: deer, Lynx · What happens: follow up, come, lie, find · To what, where: track, Lynx, dead

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Little Lynx Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, Lynx), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 followed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	nsubj
3	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 followed	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 followed	compound:prt
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 followed	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Lynx	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Lynx	det
11	Lynx	Lynx	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Lynx	acl
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lying	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 farther	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 farther	obl
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 came	advmod
18	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 found	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 farther	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dead	det
22	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Buck	flat
23	Buck	Buck	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 dead	nsubj
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 found	obj
25	too	too	ADV	_	20 found	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow up	past	deer	track			tree rules
2	come	past	deer		the Lynx	far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lynx=Initial_Location
3	lie	gerund	the Lynx not said here			dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	deer	the dead Big Buck			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Topic

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: «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Project Gutenberg book 76755 (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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🌲 Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, Little Lynx Story., sentence 13