Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 67
Then the birch bark slabs, often 12 feet long, forming the cover of some wigwam, are covered with the cut up portions of the meat.
What happens: form, cover, cut up · To what, where: cover, birch bark slabs
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 slabs | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slabs | det |
| 3 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slabs | compound |
| 4 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slabs | compound |
| 5 | slabs | slab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 feet | punct |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 feet | advmod |
| 8 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 long | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slabs | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forming | punct |
| 12 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 long | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cover | det |
| 14 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forming | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wigwam | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 wigwam | det |
| 17 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cover | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slabs | punct |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 covered | aux:pass |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 portions | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 portions | det |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 portions | amod |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 cut | compound:prt |
| 25 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 meat | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 meat | det |
| 28 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 portions | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | gerund | the cover of some wigwam | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cover=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | the birch bark slabs | with the cut portions of the meat | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with portion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut up | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66509/10/67/