Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 7
He took some birch bark from a rotten stump, rolled it into a hollow cylinder, and placed it, like a wigwam, near the shore.
Who acts: f · What happens: take, roll, place · To what, where: birch bark, rotten stump, bark, hollow cylinder, shore
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 (f), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 bark | det |
| 4 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bark | compound |
| 5 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stump | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stump | det |
| 8 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stump | amod |
| 9 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rolled | punct |
| 11 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rolled | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cylinder | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cylinder | det |
| 15 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cylinder | amod |
| 16 | cylinder | cylinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolled | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 placed | cc |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wigwam | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 wigwam | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wigwam | det |
| 24 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shore | punct |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 shore | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shore | det |
| 28 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | f | some birch bark | a rotten stump | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bark=Theme from stump=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | roll | past | bark | a hollow cylinder | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into cylinder=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | place | past | f not said here | bark | the shore | like a wigwam | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near shore=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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