Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 65
The carcass is then butchered, the head being cut off, including the first vertebra, the long piece of breast fat is also cut off with the head, so that the two remain together.
Who acts: two · What happens: butcher, cut off, remain · To what, where: carcass, head, first vertebra
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 (two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 carcass | det |
| 2 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 butchered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 butchered | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 butchered | advmod |
| 5 | butchered | butcher | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 head | det |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cut | aux:pass |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 butchered | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vertebra | punct |
| 13 | including | including | ADP | _ | 16 vertebra | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vertebra | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 vertebra | amod |
| 16 | vertebra | vertebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 piece | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 piece | amod |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vertebra | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fat | case |
| 22 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fat | compound |
| 23 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 piece | nmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cut | aux:pass |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 cut | advmod |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cut | parataxis |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 cut | compound:prt |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cut | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 remain | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 remain | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 two | det |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 remain | nsubj |
| 36 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cut | conj |
| 37 | together | together | ADV | _ | 36 remain | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 butchered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | butcher | present · passive | the carcass | then | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cut off | gerund · passive | the head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cut off | present · passive | the first vertebra | with the head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | remain | present | the two | together property | 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: «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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