Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 28
The skin had a hole in the groin, and as he had no needle to sew it up with, his scrotum hung out when he put it on himself.
Who acts: skin, needle, scrotum · What happens: have, sew up, hang out, put · To what, where: hole, groin, needle, scrotum
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 (skin, needle, scrotum), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 skin | det |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 groin | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 groin | det |
| 8 | groin | groin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 needle | det |
| 15 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sew | mark |
| 17 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sew | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 sew | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 sew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hung | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 scrotum | nmod:poss |
| 23 | scrotum | scrotum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hung | nsubj |
| 24 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 hung | compound:prt |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 put | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | nsubj |
| 28 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 hung | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 put | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 himself | case |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 put | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the skin | a hole | the groin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | Skin | no needle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sew up | to-infinitive | no needle not said here | needle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 4 | hang out | past | Skin's scrotum | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put | past | Skin | scrotum | on Skin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on himself=Destination |
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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