Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 138
He liked it so well, it tasted so sweet, that he chose this for his food and said that he would not want anything better any more.
Who acts: Squirrel, cone · What happens: like, taste, choose, say, not want · To what, where: cone, this, anything · 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 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, cone), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 liked | obj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 liked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tasted | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tasted | nsubj |
| 8 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 liked | parataxis |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sweet | advmod |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tasted | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chose | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 chose | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chose | nsubj |
| 14 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tasted | conj |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 chose | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 food | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 food | nmod:poss |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chose | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 liked | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 want | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 want | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 want | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 want | advmod |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 want | obj |
| 27 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 want | xcomp |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 better | obl |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 want | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | past | Squirrel | cone | well property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 2 | taste | past | cone | sweet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | choose | past | Squirrel | this | for Squirrel's food | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent this=Theme for food=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Squirrel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not want | would | Squirrel | anything | good property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot anything=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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