Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 139
He had killed a big bear, which was very fat and he began cooking it, having made a fire with his bow-drill.
Who acts: big bear, d · What happens: kill, be, begin, cook, have, make · To what, where: d, bear, made fire
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 (big bear, d), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bear | amod |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fat | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 fat | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fat | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 fat | advmod |
| 11 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bear | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fat | conj |
| 15 | cooking | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 began | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cooking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 having | punct |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cooking | conj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fire | amod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 having | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 drill | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 drill | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drill | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 bow | punct |
| 26 | drill | drill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 having | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · perfect · passive | d | a big bear obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer bear=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a big bear | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | d | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cook | gerund | d not said here | bear | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | d not said here | a made fire | with d's bow drill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | |||
| 6 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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