Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 146
The Beaver scooped up the grease and smeared it on himself, and that is the reason why he is so fat now.
Who acts: Beaver, that, Otter · What happens: scoop up, smear, be · To what, where: grease, Beaver, reason
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, that, Otter), 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 scooped | nsubj |
| 3 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 scooped | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grease | det |
| 6 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smeared | cc |
| 8 | smeared | smear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scooped | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smeared | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 smeared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reason | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reason | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 reason | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reason | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reason | det |
| 17 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scooped | parataxis |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 fat | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fat | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fat | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fat | advmod |
| 22 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 reason | acl |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 fat | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop up | past | the Beaver | the grease | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smear | past | the Beaver not said here | Beaver | on Otter | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on himself=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | Otter | now | 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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