Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 69
This Muskrat doubled up and put his nose into the hair of his breast which enabled him to breathe by the bubbles clinging there.
Who acts: Muskrat, breast, bubbles · What happens: double up, put, enable, breathe, cling · To what, where: nose, hair, Muskrat
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 (Muskrat, breast, bubbles), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Muskrat | det |
| 2 | Muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubled | nsubj |
| 3 | doubled | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 doubled | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 doubled | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nose | nmod:poss |
| 8 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 hair | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hair | det |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 breast | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 breast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hair | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 enabled | nsubj |
| 16 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 breast | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 enabled | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 breathe | mark |
| 19 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 enabled | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 bubbles | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bubbles | det |
| 22 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 breathe | obl |
| 23 | clinging | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 bubbles | acl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 clinging | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | double up | past | this Muskrat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | this Muskrat not said here | Muskrat's nose | the hair of Muskrat's breast | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nose=Goal | |||
| 3 | enable | past | Muskrat's breast | Muskrat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | breathe | to-infinitive | Muskrat's breast not said here | by the bubbles | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | cling | gerund | the bubbles not said here | there | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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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