Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 74
When the feast is about half through, the chief gets up and decorates the bear’s head with bright coloured ribbons about six inches long attached to little cedar sticks about four inches long, with their ends split to hold the ribbons.
Who acts: feast, chief, head, ends · What happens: be, get up, decorate, attach, stick, split · To what, where: bright coloured ribbons, ribbons
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 (feast, chief, head, ends), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 through | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 through | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 through | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 through | advmod |
| 6 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 through | advmod |
| 7 | through | through | ADV | _ | 11 gets | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 through | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 gets | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 decorates | cc |
| 14 | decorates | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 bear | case |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sticks | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ribbons | case |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ribbons | amod |
| 21 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ribbons | amod |
| 22 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 head | nmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 six | advmod |
| 24 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 inches | nummod |
| 25 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 long | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ribbons | amod |
| 27 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ribbons | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 cedar | case |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cedar | amod |
| 30 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 attached | obl |
| 31 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 decorates | parataxis |
| 32 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 four | advmod |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 inches | nummod |
| 34 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 long | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sticks | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 split | punct |
| 37 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 40 split | mark |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 ends | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 split | nsubj |
| 40 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sticks | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 hold | mark |
| 42 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 split | xcomp |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 ribbons | det |
| 44 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 hold | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the feast | about, half, through property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | present | the chief | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | decorate | present | the chief not said here | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | attach | participle | bright coloured ribbons not said here | to little cedar | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to cedar=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | stick | present | the bear's head with bright coloured ribbons | long property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | split | past | guests's ends | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | hold | to-infinitive | guests's ends not said here | the ribbons | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ribbon=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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