Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 5, sentence 163
After he had eaten here, the old woman gave him a squirrel’s tail to help him overcome the dangers which she warned him against.
Who acts: man, old woman, squirrel · What happens: eat, give, help, overcome, warn · To what, where: tail, man, dangers
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 (man, old woman, squirrel), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 gave | advcl |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 eaten | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eaten | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 squirrel | det |
| 13 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 squirrel | case |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 help | mark |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 help | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dangers | det |
| 21 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 overcome | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 warned | obj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 warned | nsubj |
| 24 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dangers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 warned | obj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 warned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | man | here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the old woman | a squirrel's tail | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tail=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | the old woman not said here | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | overcome | infinitive | man not said here | the dangers | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot danger=Theme | ||||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | past | squirrel | the dangers | man | 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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