Ojibwa myths and tales, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic., sentence 12
By the time when he had enough he quit fishing and started to carry the sturgeon back into the woods from the pile he had thrown them into.
Who acts: Rat · What happens: have, quit, start, carry back, throw · To what, where: fishing, sturgeon, woods
This is a sentence of «Ojibwa myths and tales» by Geo. E. Laidlaw, Rat and Beaver Story—wah-zesk and Ah-mic.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rat), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quit | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 had | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 quit | nsubj |
| 9 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quit | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quit | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 started | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sturgeon | det |
| 16 | sturgeon | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 carry | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 woods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woods | det |
| 20 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 pile | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pile | det |
| 23 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thrown | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thrown | aux |
| 26 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 pile | acl:relcl |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thrown | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 thrown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Rat | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | quit | past | Rat | fishing | time | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Source | |||
| 3 | start | past | Rat not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | carry back | to-infinitive | Rat not said here | the sturgeon | the woods | from the pile | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sturgeon=Theme from pile=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | throw | past · perfect | Rat | woods = wood | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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