Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 153
Then he wished himself to be changed into an ant in order to get into the skull and get enough to eat, for there was only about an ant’s meal left.
Who acts: little, meal · What happens: wish, change, get, eat, be, leave · To what, where: little, ant, skull, enough · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (little, meal), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wished | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 changed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changed | aux:pass |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wished | ccomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 ant | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ant | det |
| 10 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 get | mark |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 in | fixed |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changed | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 skull | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skull | det |
| 17 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 20 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 enough | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 left | advcl |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 meal | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 32 meal | advmod |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 ant | det |
| 30 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 meal | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 ant | case |
| 32 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 left | nsubj |
| 33 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | little | little | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | into a ant result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into ant=Result | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the skull | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into skull=Destination | |||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | enough | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | be | past | a ant's meal not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | leave | past | a ant's meal | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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