Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 3, sentence 94
Skunk pepedit and killed all of them, and then Wemicus and his family had plenty.
Who acts: you, Wemicus · What happens: skunk, kill, have · To what, where: pepedit, all, plenty
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 (you, 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 | Skunk | skunk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pepedit | pepedit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skunk | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 killed | cc |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Skunk | conj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 killed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 had | advmod |
| 11 | Wemicus | Wemicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 family | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 family | nmod:poss |
| 14 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wemicus | conj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Skunk | parataxis |
| 16 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Skunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skunk | imperative | you not said here | pepedit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | you not said here | all of shots | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Wemicus and Wemicus's family | plenty | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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