Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 144
He took the cranberries from inside his shirt and each time he pretended to catch a louse, he cracked a cranberry and threw it on the ground, and so Wemicus got fooled a second time that day.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: take, pretend, catch, crack, throw, fool · To what, where: cranberries, shirt, time, louse, cranberry, way
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wemicus), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cranberries | det |
| 4 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 shirt | case |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 shirt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shirt | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pretended | nsubj |
| 13 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 catch | mark |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pretended | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 louse | det |
| 17 | louse | louse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 catch | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cracked | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cracked | nsubj |
| 20 | cracked | crack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cranberry | det |
| 22 | cranberry | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cracked | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 threw | cc |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cracked | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fooled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fooled | cc |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 fooled | advmod |
| 32 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 fooled | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fooled | aux:pass |
| 34 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fooled | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fooled | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Wemicus | the cranberries | Wemicus's shirt and each time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cranberry=Theme from shirt=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pretend | past | Wemicus | each time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | Wemicus not said here | a louse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent louse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | crack | past | Wemicus | a cranberry | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cranberry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | Wemicus not said here | way | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 6 | fool | past · passive | Wemicus | day; time | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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