Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 137
So the Squirrel ran up the black-spruce tree and tasted the sweet seed of the cone.
Who acts: Squirrel · What happens: run up, taste · To what, where: spruce tree, sweet seed
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 (Squirrel), 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 | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Squirrel | det |
| 3 | Squirrel | Squirrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 ran | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spruce | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 black | punct |
| 9 | spruce | spruce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tasted | cc |
| 12 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seed | det |
| 14 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seed | amod |
| 15 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tasted | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cone | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cone | det |
| 18 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seed | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | past | the Squirrel | the spruce tree | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | taste | past | the Squirrel not said here | the sweet seed of the cone | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme seed=Attribute |
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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