Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 49
This satisfied Nenebuc and he used to help his grandfather in many ways, spearing fish for him in calm days, hunting for him, and doing many other things.
Who acts: satisfied Nenebuc · What happens: use, help, spear, hunt, do · To what, where: grandfather, many ways, fish, many other things
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 (satisfied Nenebuc), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Nenebuc | nsubj |
| 2 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Nenebuc | amod |
| 3 | Nenebuc | Nenebuc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Nenebuc | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 used | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 help | mark |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 help | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ways | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 help | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spearing | punct |
| 15 | spearing | spear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 used | advcl |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spearing | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spearing | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 days | amod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spearing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hunting | punct |
| 23 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 spearing | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hunting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 doing | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 doing | cc |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 spearing | conj |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 doing | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | satisfied Nenebuc This | grandfather nsubj | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | satisfied Nenebuc This not said here | grandfather's grandfather | many ways | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | spear | gerund | satisfied Nenebuc This not said here | fish | day | for grandfather | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | satisfied Nenebuc This not said here | for grandfather | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | gerund | satisfied Nenebuc This not said here | many other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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