Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 43
So he took a whetstone and, scraping it on a rock, he asked it, “Have I any mother?”
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: take, scrape, ask, have · To what, where: whetstone, rock, mother · 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 (grandfather), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 whetstone | det |
| 5 | whetstone | whetstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 scraping | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 scraping | punct |
| 8 | scraping | scrape | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scraping | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scraping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Have | punct |
| 19 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Have | nsubj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 mother | det |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Have | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | grandfather | a whetstone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whetstone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scrape | gerund | grandfather not said here | whetstone | a rock | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on rock=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | grandfather | whetstone | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | grandfather | any mother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient |
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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