Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 16
The Beaver cut a piece that size and sent it to the Otter; that is all the Otter got.
Who acts: Beaver, that · What happens: cut, send, be · To what, where: piece, Otter
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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beaver, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Beaver | det |
| 2 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 size | det |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Otter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Otter | det |
| 13 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 got | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 got | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 got | cop |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 got | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Otter | det |
| 19 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | the Beaver | a piece that size | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Product | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Beaver not said here | piece | the Otter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to otter=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | the Otter nsubj; get property | tree rules |
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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