Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 56
In the body of a fish are various bones which the Indians liken to different utensils and tools in the hunter’s outfit.
Who acts: Indians · What happens: be, liken · To what, where: various bones, body, outfit
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Timiskaming Folk-lore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indians), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 body | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bones | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fish | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fish | det |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bones | cop |
| 8 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bones | amod |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 liken | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Indians | det |
| 12 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 liken | nsubj |
| 13 | liken | liken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bones | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 utensils | case |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 utensils | amod |
| 16 | utensils | utensil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 liken | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tools | cc |
| 18 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 utensils | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 outfit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hunter | det |
| 21 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 outfit | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 hunter | case |
| 23 | outfit | outfit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 liken | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | various bones | the body of a fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | liken | present | the Indians | various bones | the hunter's outfit | to different utensils and tools | tree rules |
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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