Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 136
(d) Nenebuc Prepares a Feast and Gets Caught Between Two Trees, While the Animals Receive a Distribution of Fat.
Who acts: d, Animals · What happens: prepare, catch, receive, distribute · To what, where: Feast, Gets, Distribution, Fat
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (d, Animals), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 d | punct |
| 2 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Prepares | nsubj |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 d | punct |
| 4 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 d | appos |
| 5 | Prepares | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Feast | det |
| 7 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Prepares | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Gets | cc |
| 9 | Gets | get | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Feast | conj |
| 10 | Caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Gets | acl |
| 11 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Trees | case |
| 12 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Trees | nummod |
| 13 | Trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Caught | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Receive | punct |
| 15 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 Receive | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Animals | det |
| 17 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Receive | nsubj |
| 18 | Receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Prepares | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Distribution | det |
| 20 | Distribution | distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Receive | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Fat | case |
| 22 | Fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Distribution | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prepares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | present | d | a Feast and Gets | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | Gets not said here | between Two Trees | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | receive | present | the Animals | a Distribution of Fat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent distribution=Theme | ||||
| 4 | distribute | Fat | nom distribution «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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