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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 Squirrel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Squirrel | det |
| 7 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turned | cc |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Squirrel | det |
| 11 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bear | det |
| 14 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bear | det |
| 18 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shape | punct |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 shape | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 22 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 shape | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Squirrel | case |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Bear | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bear | punct |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 badly | advmod |
| 28 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 felt | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 cried | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cried | nsubj |
| 31 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 felt | advcl |
| 32 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 35 turned | mark |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 turned | nsubj |
| 35 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 cried | advcl |
| 36 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 turned | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Nenebuc | Bear | then | into the Squirrel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into squirrel=Product | ||
| 2 | turn | past | Nenebuc not said here | the Squirrel | the Bear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme into bear=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | feel | past | the Bear and Squirrel's shape | badly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Nenebuc | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | Nenebuc's eyebrows | grey property | vn 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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