Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 64
Slabs of birch bark are spread upon a clear space of ground to serve as a sort of table.
What happens: spread, serve, sort · To what, where: Slabs, clear space, table
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: 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 | Slabs | slab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bark | case |
| 3 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bark | compound |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slabs | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 spread | aux:pass |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 space | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 space | det |
| 9 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 space | amod |
| 10 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 space | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 serve | mark |
| 14 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spread | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 sort | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sort | det |
| 17 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 serve | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 table | case |
| 19 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sort | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present · passive | Slabs of birch bark | a clear space of ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon space=Destination | ||||
| 2 | serve | to-infinitive | as a sort of table | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as sort=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sort | table | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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