Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 79
After the feast the oldest and most venerable man in the camp is presented with the head and the attached breast fat, which he may either take home or distribute over again to the company.
Who acts: man · What happens: present, attach, take, distribute · To what, where: oldest man, attached breast fat, company
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 (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 presented | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 man | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 venerable | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 venerable | advmod |
| 8 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 oldest | conj |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 camp | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 camp | det |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 presented | aux:pass |
| 14 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 presented | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fat | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fat | det |
| 20 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fat | amod |
| 21 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fat | compound |
| 22 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 take | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 27 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 take | advmod |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fat | parataxis |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 take | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 distribute | cc |
| 31 | distribute | distribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 take | conj |
| 32 | over | over | ADV | _ | 33 again | advmod |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 distribute | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 company | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 company | det |
| 36 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 distribute | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present · passive | the oldest man in the camp | after the feast | with the head and the attached breast fat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with head=Theme | |||
| 2 | attach | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | take | may | man | the attached breast fat | either, home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 4 | distribute | infinitive | man not said here | the company | again | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to company=Recipient |
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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