Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 145
The Beaver jumped into the grease and ate it, and the Otter did the same, and that is why they are so fat in the belly.
Who acts: Beaver, Otter, that, Animals · What happens: jump, eat, do, be · To what, where: grease, Beaver, same, belly
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 (Beaver, Otter, that, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beaver | det |
| 2 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 grease | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grease | det |
| 6 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ate | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Otter | det |
| 13 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 did | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 why | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 why | cc |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 why | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 why | cop |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 jumped | parataxis |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fat | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fat | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 fat | advmod |
| 25 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 why | advcl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 belly | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 belly | det |
| 28 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the Beaver | into the grease result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into grease=Result | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the Beaver not said here | Beaver | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the Otter | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | Animals = animal | the belly | fat property | tree rules |
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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