Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 152

He looked around and found a bear’s skull that was all cleaned except for the brain, and there was only a little of that left, but he couldn’t get at it.

Who acts: Rabbit, little · What happens: look around, find, clean, be, not get · To what, where: skull, left

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 (Rabbit, little), 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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 found	cc
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skull	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 bear	case
9	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 cleaned	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cleaned	aux:pass
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 cleaned	advmod
13	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 skull	acl:relcl
14	except	except	ADP	_	17 brain	case
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 brain	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brain	det
17	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 little	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 was	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 left	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 left	det
27	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 little	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look around	past	Rabbit			around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	past	Rabbit not said here	a bear's skull			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Topic
3	clean	past · passive		a bear's skull		except the brain; all property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	be	past	a little of that left		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not get	could	Rabbit		left		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 152

The tree

Pragmatics

Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 152