Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 154
He then took the gulls’ wings and fastened them on himself, filled his shirt with eggs, and started flying over the lake by the aid of the wings.
Who acts: Wemicus · What happens: take, fasten, fill, start, fly · To what, where: wings, gulls, shirt, lake
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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gulls | det |
| 5 | gulls | gull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 5 gulls | case |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fastened | cc |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fastened | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 fastened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eggs | case |
| 18 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 started | cc |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 22 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 started | xcomp |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 lake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flying | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 aid | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 aid | det |
| 28 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flying | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 wings | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wings | det |
| 31 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 aid | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Wemicus | the gulls's wings | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | Wemicus not said here | gulls = gull | on Wemicus | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient on himself=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | fill | past | Wemicus not said here | Wemicus's shirt | with eggs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shirt=Patient with egg=Instrument | |||
| 4 | start | past | Wemicus not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | Wemicus not said here | the lake | by the aid of the wings | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lake=Location |
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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