Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 32
Then Meme began climbing the pine tree, which was at the back of his wigwam, and began pecking in the trunk with his nose.
Who acts: Meme, pine tree · What happens: begin, climb, be, peck · To what, where: pine tree, back, trunk
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 (Meme, pine tree), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Meme | Meme | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 back | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 back | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 back | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 back | det |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wigwam | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wigwam | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 back | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 20 | pecking | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 began | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 trunk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trunk | det |
| 23 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pecking | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 nose | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nose | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pecking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Meme | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb | gerund | Meme not said here | the pine tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the pine tree | the back | of Meme's wigwam | tree rules | |||
| 4 | begin | past | Meme not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | peck | gerund | Meme not said here | the trunk | with Meme's nose | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with nose=Instrument |
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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