Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 5

Every time the little dog tried to bark the man knew that there was some game near.

Who acts: little dog, game · What happens: try, bark, know, be · To what, where: time, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, The Little Dog Story.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dog, game), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 bark	mark
8	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bark	obj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 was	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	ccomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 game	det
16	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
17	near	near	ADV	_	16 game	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	try	past	the little dog	every time not said here			tree rules
2	bark not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little dog not said here	the man			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme
3	know	past				time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	past	some game		there		vn exist-47.1 «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: «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, The Little Dog Story., sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Ojibwa myths and tales, The Little Dog Story., sentence 5