Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 140
When he was ready to spread his meat, he heard two trees scraping together, swayed by the wind.
Who acts: d, two trees · What happens: be, spread, hear, scrape together, sway · To what, where: meat, two trees
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, two trees), 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 | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 spread | mark |
| 6 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 meat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spread | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 trees | nummod |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | scraping | scrape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 trees | acl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 scraping | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swayed | punct |
| 17 | swayed | sway | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 heard | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swayed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | d | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | to-infinitive | d not said here | d's meat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | d | two trees | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | scrape together | gerund | two trees not said here | together property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sway | participle | d not said here | by the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location |
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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