Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Timiskaming Folk-lore., sentence 9
Before he died he wished that his life and the strength of his flesh might be transferred to his bones.
Who acts: gukʻ · What happens: die, wish, transfer · To what, where: life, bones · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gukʻ), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 died | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wished | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 transferred | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transferred | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strength | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strength | det |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 life | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flesh | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strength | nmod |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 transferred | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 transferred | aux:pass |
| 17 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wished | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bones | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bones | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 transferred | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | gukʻ | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | gukʻ | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | transfer | might · passive | gukʻ's life and the strength of gukʻ's flesh | gukʻ's bones | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to bone=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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