Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 67
Seven days after this he allowed the Muskrat to try and bring the land.
Who acts: Seven days, Muskrat · What happens: allow, try, bring · To what, where: Muskrat, land
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 (Seven days, Muskrat), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 allowed | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 days | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 allowed | nsubj |
| 6 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Muskrat | det |
| 8 | Muskrat | Muskrat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 allowed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 try | mark |
| 10 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 allowed | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bring | cc |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 try | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | Seven days after this | the Muskrat | Beaver nsubj | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer muskrat=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Muskrat not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | the Muskrat not said here | the land | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent land=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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