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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 128

Then he made him into the Squirrel and turned the Squirrel into the Bear, and the Bear, now in Squirrel’s shape, felt so badly that he cried until his eyebrows turned grey.

Who acts: Nenebuc, Bear, eyebrows · What happens: make, turn, feel, cry · To what, where: Bear, Squirrel

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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nenebuc, Bear, eyebrows), 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

advmodnsubjobjcasedetoblccconjdetobjcasedetoblpunctccdetnsubjpunctadvmodcasenmod:posscaseconjpunctconjadvmodadvmodmarknsubjadvclmarknmod:possnsubjadvclxcomppunctrootThenADVhePRONmadeVERBhimPRONintoADPtheDETSquirrelNOUNandCCONJturnedVERBtheDETSquirrelPROPNintoADPtheDETBearNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETBearNOUN,PUNCTnowADVinADPSquirrelPROPN’sPARTshapeNOUN,PUNCTfeltVERBsoADVbadlyADVthatSCONJhePRONcriedVERBuntilSCONJhisPRONeyebrowsNOUNturnedVERBgreyADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 madeadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 madensubj
3mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 madeobj
5intointoADP_7 Squirrelcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Squirreldet
7SquirrelsquirrelNOUNNumber=Sing3 madeobl
8andandCCONJ_9 turnedcc
9turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 madeconj
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Squirreldet
11SquirrelSquirrelPROPNNumber=Sing9 turnedobj
12intointoADP_14 Bearcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 Beardet
14BearbearNOUNNumber=Sing9 turnedobl
15,,PUNCT_26 feltpunct
16andandCCONJ_26 feltcc
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 Beardet
18BearbearNOUNNumber=Sing26 feltnsubj
19,,PUNCT_24 shapepunct
20nownowADVPronType=Dem24 shapeadvmod
21ininADP_24 shapecase
22SquirrelSquirrelPROPNNumber=Sing24 shapenmod:poss
23’s'sPART_22 Squirrelcase
24shapeshapeNOUNNumber=Sing18 Bearconj
25,,PUNCT_18 Bearpunct
26feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 madeconj
27sosoADV_28 badlyadvmod
28badlybadlyADVDegree=Pos26 feltadvmod
29thatthatSCONJ_31 criedmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 criednsubj
31criedcryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 feltadvcl
32untiluntilSCONJ_35 turnedmark
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 eyebrowsnmod:poss
34eyebrowseyebrowNOUNNumber=Plur35 turnednsubj
35turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 criedadvcl
36greygreyADJDegree=Pos35 turnedxcomp
37..PUNCT_3 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastNenebucBeartheninto the Squirrelvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into squirrel=Product
2turnpastNenebuc not said herethe Squirrelthe Bearvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme into bear=Trajectory
3feelpastthe Bear and Squirrel's shapebadly propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4cry speech: expresspastNenebucvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5turnpastNenebuc's eyebrowsgrey propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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